Trish, can I share with you a little thing that happened in an exercise class I went to this week

which fascinated me and gave me, well it gave me the giggles and it also gave me quite a lot of joy

actually. It was such an unpleasant sounds or smells, was it? No. Okay. I think like that.

Little Pilates class, pop along quietly and the what's she called? The training instructor.

In the instructor. Yes. At the beginning, the instructor says, has anybody got any injuries?

I should know or let me know now and I can help you out. And this lady came up to her

in front of the whole class and she said, I don't want to put my arms up in the air,

I don't want to put my arms down low and I don't really want to break out into too much of a sweat.

And I was just struck by the idea that you could say,

getting in of an exercise class. These are the things I do not want to do. I would like to leave

halfway through and I'd like to take a phone call if I may. I mean, it just opened up a whole

world of just asking for what you want. It's just happiness. It's just a bit of, I don't know,

but it's bespoke gone mad, isn't it? Bespoke class gone mad. And how did this poor instructor

respond which managed to keep the face? She did keep a straight face. I was rather impressed.

She was very understanding. She said, is it because of an injury and the lady said, no.

I wanted to put my hand up and say, I can't do the splits, is that okay?

I wanted to do the splits by the end of this class. Was it just all call work that with no hands in

the air like we don't care? Or did she just ignore her? Well, you know what, Pilates is very slow,

Trish. Very slow. And there is no breaking out in a sweat in Pilates. It's a thing that you

want to take responsibility for yourself. You know, I don't inflict it on everybody else.

But imagine being able to ask for what you want in such a forthright manner in front of a whole

class of people, I think that's brilliant. You see, that's the difference between you and me.

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