February has arrived, and most of us have come through January without too many problems, but still we have a few issues with colds,flu and some bad tummy bugs that are lasting a few weeks, not nice and it will take few weeks extra to get over. So I will be keeping to the same routine as last month with a few extra movements to help.
This month sport has come into some ridicule with 2 very so so journalist who have now lost their jobs, these men criticises the judgement of a female lines official in a game. So for the records without women football would have floundered during the war as can be seen from the excerpt below
The Munition Workers Girls' teams. When so many young men marched off to war in 1914 it had fallen to women to pick up some of the tasks they normally performed. Many young working-class women were only too ready to respond to this call, not just for reasons of patriotism, but to break free from the domestic drudgery that was their only other hope of gainful employment. The manufacture of munitions in particular attracted large numbers of women, and by March 1917 they comprised 80 percent of the workforce. Never before had such a large cohort of young women found themselves thrown together so closely, and they enjoyed their new-found freedom, even though they worked in dangerous conditions, with rates of pay approximately half that of their remaining male co-workers. They organised social activities among themselves, and one of the recreational outlets they explored was football. They did not play in organised leagues, but staged friendly matches for charitable causes. Women's football teams sprang up all over the country, and Tyneside was no exception. On April 22nd 1919 30,000 spectators saw Tyneside take on Dick Kerry's Ladies of Preston. In the last four and a half years the ladies raised £15,000 for charity, the web site below will show how women.
http://www.donmouth.co.uk/local_history/great_war_football/great_war_football.html
The other thing that happened this month was that Sport England have put up £10 million and are hoping to promote women in sport by funding set sports for them, but as long as this country uses men with such low opinions of women no matter how much money is used this will never happen.
Glimour Pipers
Mark and Emma Newman have had a little girl this month. Andrew Gilmour has been setting up a new web site for those suffering from back problems, this should be going live later on in the month. Ken and John came back from riding in Ireland without any broken bones, The ladies on Wednesday morning class last week had a little to say about the above so so journalist, this was Annie a cricket umpire and couch, Vicky who’s daughter is a sports journalist. Vicki also mentioned that the first person to serve over arm in tennis was a women called Maude Watson in 1884, she won the first ever Ladies’ Singles title at Wimbledon at 19. The ladies of this class on a Wednesday think nothing to cycling around India and Cambodia, not to mention some who walk anything up to 50 miles in a day.
Dance East
classes have been very busy this month and a lot of fun as well as challenging problems but all doing well. The booked classes on Tuesday have been very fullwith a lot of my pupils being turned away due to the lack of spaces so we have added to the Tuesday evening class at 5.30 in the new term this is still to be confirmed as yet.
The Council Offices
are back and running up at full throttle but we have a few problems with the bugs but I hope all will get back to normal soon for every body.
Woodbridge School
At last I have been able to get back to teaching them and on Friday we had a great session, all did a great job and if the so called so so journalist and Sport England had a chance to look at some of the young ladies in the school they would be aware of what talent can be found in this country and it does not need so much money thrown at it.
Ipswich Cardenals
Training is now back full and giving me some problems but we seem to be keeping them from nocking seven bells out of each other, I get few injuries each week but nothing as yet the last game in Glasgow was a little rough but all doing well now waiting for the start of the session.
Ipswich Town
Great to see Ipswich back doing well. But I still miss the old boys But I hope to see a few players again doing well.
This month we are going to discuss the problem of cramp, that is an involuntary, painful, muscle spasm that is usually brief but can be prolonged and repeated. It can affect either a whole muscle or a group of muscles but is most commonly found to affect the whole limb. Mostly cramp is not serious although while it is occurring it can be agonising however there are a few occasions that it can be a sign of something more serious and it is important to be able to identify that.
Cramp is the involuntary contraction of either a muscle or part of a muscle which is continuous, this leads to a build up of lactic acid and some other wastes in the muscles which causes pain and occasionally some muscle fibre damages. The causes are not always clear but it is often some change a chemical change within the muscle , lack of sodium, calcium or magnesium for example or the narrowing of the arteries through disease preventing the muscles getting enough food.
The circumstances of the cramp will help to diagnosis its type
For example:-
common night cramps---affecting usually the elderly lying in bed and stationary for long periods and occurs for no reason are generally not serious.
intermittent claudication--- leg cramps occurring after walking a fixed distance and are usually a result of reduced blood supply to the muscles.
angina pectoris ----cramps affecting the centre of the chest and are often associated with exertion of the heart and should always be investigated.
tetany -----this is a hysterical attack with over breathing and is usually due to a drop in calcium due to loss of carbon dioxide. This is the type of hysteria that we sometime see people breathing into a brown paper bag which reintroduces carbon dioxide into the system.
The common types of cramps are writers cramp , also a symptom of Repetitive Strain Injury and also tetanus [lockjaw]
Cramp in the chest must be investigated by the Doctors , however occasional night cramps for example can be eased by gently massaging affected area and also stretching it . If by nature you sweat profusely made sure you drink enough and also take a little salt especially in hot weather
