Starting on Monday evening at around 7.30 (via Zoom if she can get her broadband working), ex- Olympic athlete and holistic horse-whisperer Clare Balding will be trying to resurrect her famed Hit & Knit course by taking it online. As you’ll probably have read in the press her (now ex-) friends Michael McIntyre and Germaine Greer unfortunately made a pigs ear of running the courses a few years back and so Clare (currently furlonged due to Covid) is in future going to run the courses herself from her kitchen one evening per week, hopefully for three months. The unique course she invented combines the mental & physical riguers of knitting with the keep-fit pummelling of boxing. She took inspiration from the Rocky films and used it to successfully train EasyJet crews and the staff of a Greggs somewhere. Clare’s catchy slogan is “before you can say Hit One, Purl One you’ll have made yourself a matching scarf, hat and gloves and be able to punch well above your weight. You’ll probably end up as a new you!” And as it’s now online all ages are welcome with the whole online course only costing £3,499. Chegwins Gym are honoured that Clare is renting our zoom “channel” to host the courses. See you next week. Rod S. Welling, manager, Chegwins Gym.