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This is my journey along the canal from West Stockwith to Chesterfield.    

Drakeholes tunnel

Starting at West Stockwith where the canal enters the river Trent there are quite a few nice restaurants.   There is also a canal Marina at this point.   It is quite nice to walk along the River Trent and I have sat beside the river at this point painting the Church on the other side of the river.    

If we move further along the canal we arrive at a lovely stretch of the canal called Drakeholes.      

 There is a lovely pub called the White Swan, where you can have a really nice carvery lunch, then once your meal has settled there is a really nice stretch of the canal to walk down.   I am sure that when I walked down the canal at this point I have stumbled across a quaint village and country house, but I will have to go back and get more details on it.    You can either sit inside the pub or outside admiring the view, or down by the side of the canal, where there is a tunnel entrance.   I first stumbled across this stretch of the canal in the early 1980′s, when a friend took me to see his boat on the canal and this is only the stretch of the canal I can remember actually travelling on the water.  

White Swan

The canal from Worksop to Retford has been open for as long as I can remember.    I have parked outside Retford a number of times and walked down the canal into the Town Centre.    

One day I tried to cycle from my house at Anston to Drakeholes down the canal, but when I arrived in the  middle of Worksop, the canal went from being a gravel track to a grass path, which made it hard work and I only got as far as the Chequers pub at Ranby, where I had a lunchtime meal.    

I know the canal best from Kiveton to Worksop and often cycle down to Worksop from my entry point at South Anston.     

South Anston access point in the summer.

The canal from Kiveton to Worksop has been completed for about the last ten years and is easy to cycle on.  I can usually get from my home at Anston to Worksop in about 3/4′s of an hour on my bike.    

It is quite nice to sit beside the canal at Shireoaks, where you will find a little cafe and village shop.  There is also a station at Shireoaks, with an hourly service from Sheffield or you can come in from the Retford end as well.  A very nice spot to have a picnic.    

If you travel further down the canal you arrive at Turners Wood, which has a boats turning circle and a row of old    

Turner Wood in the winter

fashioned cottages.   Another excellent place to stop and have a picnic and you will find a little cafe where you can purchase drinks and ice creams from Dianne.  There are also a pair of swans at this point.    

There is then a series of locks on the canal as it starts to rise up.   And you find a cottage on your right and side, with a pair of geese.  At some point there is an overflow of the canal, which you have to cross by a foot bridge, but in the summer the canal stops overflowing and it isn’t always necessary to use the bridge.    

On the right hand side of the canal as you are walking along, you will see  a building in the tree.  This was the Harry Croft mine.  I understand it was a faulty seam and only ever used as a ventilation shaft for Shireoaks colliery.    

A bit further along you can access the canal from South Anston.   The canal becomes   

Cafe at Turner Wood

very flat at this point until you get to Kiveton Park, which is another place to access the canal via train.  There is also the Station hotel, where you can have a meal or drink, which has just under gone refurbishment.    

It is about a mile from here to the Norwood Tunnel, where the refurbishment of the canal stops.  The Norwood Tunnel has been bricked up and in future you will have to follow signs for the Cuckoo way, you may need a guide if you haven’t been along this part of the canal before or you may get lost.   Just before you arrive at Norwood Tunnel, you    

Kiveton top up point.

will see a major top up point for the canal, where water cascades down from the river above.    

I understand that part of the Norwood tunnel will be reopened, then a viaduct will be cut through the old pit site.  The existing fishing ponds will be turned into the Marina and moved.   The canal will then drop under the M1 in an existing viaduct.   From the pit site down to the other end of the Norwood tunnel is quite a drop and I think there will be a series of locks to allow this to happen, before the canal drops into Rothervalley Park and picks up the canal again.    

Once you get to the canal at the Norwood Tunnel.   You have to follow a footpath over some land that is quite boggy in 

Kiveton canal festival last year

places and you will find quite a few wild ponies.   Eventually you will arrive at the main road between Harthill and Kiveton, which you will need to cross with care.   Then follow the footpaths across the pit site.   At some stage you turn left and follow footpaths across fields, before you go beneath the M1, eventually you come to a wood.      

 There you will find the other end of the Norwood Tunnel and a number of Lilly ponds, which are now a feature of somebody’s gardens.   There is then a series of locks that need an awful lot of work doing to them, if the canal is to follow this path again.   A number of expensive houses have been built at this point and the path becomes a driveway down to the main road, between Kiveton and Killamarsh.   At this point you will find the Angel pub.    

You can follow the canal again on the other side of the road, but it is very overgrown and nothing more than a dyke with water in it.  Eventually you will come to Killamarsh Greenway.   At Killamarsh houses were built across the old canal route, in the early 1970′s when the waterways sold off this stretch of the canal.   The Greenway is a path come cycle track through the housing estate.    

Trans pennine trail

It is quite easy to follow the canal from this point.  It takes quite a long time before you pick up the canal again.   At some point you will find a number of fishing ponds, that have been created out of the canal.   After this point you see traces of the canal, which is either a dyke in the floor or nothing at all.   From the Killamarsh Greenway you can either follow what is left of the old canal or travel along the Transpennine trail which is much easier.    

Eventually you will arrive at Renishaw, where there is a little work being done to reopen the canal, but then the canal disappears again.   At this point the canal seems to disappear completely and all I seemed to do was walk across fields with footpaths on them.   You wouldn’t have ever believed a canal existed.  Closing the gap has an    

As bad as it gets.

awful lot of work to do.   As I was arriving at Staveley I got a little lost and ended up turning back when I arrived at Masten Moor.    

I understand that when I get to Staveley that there has been some further restoration work done on the canal.  I know very little about the canal from Staveley to Chesterfield, but will add information as I investigate further.  I think I will park my car at Killamarsh and have another go using my mountain bike and see if I can get into Staveley next time.    

To open the remaining part of the canal is going to be quite a challenge.   When the canal was restored between Worksop and Kiveton, there was a dyke with water in that looked like a canal.  From Kiveton to Staveley, there is very little resemblance of a canal at all.    

I will keep adding picture and content to this blog, as I investigate the Chesterfield canal further and the closing the gap work progresses.    

Until next time.    

Best regards    

Tim    

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Relaxing Holidays in the UK

The benefits to both body and soul of a relaxing holiday are many and varied. You will not only feel physically refreshed but tiredness and stress should vanish as a result. The UK is a wonderful place in which to take a relaxing holiday and the choices are seemingly endless, from first class hotels and spa weekends through to peaceful self catering accommodation set amongst rolling hills and delightful English countryside.

The beaches of Cornwall and Devon are extremely popular as are Somerset and Dorset. Tenby and the surrounding Welsh countryside provide a range of stunning locations for a relaxing break and for both fishing and golf. With magnificent scenery such as the Giants Causeway and the rolling hills of Connemara and with so many quiet and wonderful beaches, Ireland is the place to go.

The county of Kent, known as the “Garden of England”, is another popular location in which to relax and unwind in one of the many pretty countryside villages or bustling coastal resorts.

Travel north and you will discover the largest national park in England, the Lake District. Here the opportunities to walk and to relax amidst breathtaking scenery are endless. Further north still, you will discover Scotland with its rugged highlands and beautiful lochs – a joy to visit.

Yorkshire is a delight, its coastal towns boasting superb beaches such as those to be found at Scarborough and Whitby. South Yorkshire offers a range of peaceful destinations for an enjoyable, relaxing holiday where you can enjoy bird watching, walking, strolling around museums and heritage centres.

When you have chosen your location and decided on the activities you wish to undertake, if you do your homework before your holiday commences you will be able to plan things in advance and therefore gain as much as possible from your break. Browsing the internet will enable you to check that spa facilities, amongst others, are available.

Do remember to pack your walking boots if you are an avid hiker as well as binoculars for viewing the scenery and for a little bird watching. As beautiful as England may be, holidaymakers need to be prepared for rapid changes in the climate. A beautiful sunny morning can change to a wet and chilly afternoon / evening so both warm and lightweight clothing must be packed and wet weather gear as well as sun tan lotion are essential.

Among the many benefits of holidaying at home in the UK, there are no concerns that a passing volcanic ash cloud may result in your flight being cancelled or delayed – who needs a plane when you can use the train. Alternatively, taking your car allows you to more or less take the kitchen sink with you if you wish. The currency is not a problem, you know you will enjoy the food and you don`t have to struggle to learn a few key phrases in the local language before your holiday begins!

The UK offers almost endless choices, from superb luxury www.cheaphotelbookings.com/uk-hotels/sheffield-hotels-5.htm near Sheffield to idyllic spa breaks in elegant seaside resorts dotted around the nation`s coastline. Whatever your preferences, there should be a spa, guest house, B&B, holiday cottage, hotel or camp site to suit.

Tim Wells NLP Master Practitioner and Hypnotherapist can be contacted on (0044) 01909 561706 or via tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com, if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.  I can work one to one, conduct tailor made personal development courses for your organisation or you can download Mp3 recordings for specific outcomes from my web site. 

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Dear all.

I have been experimenting with the “HU” chant the last week.   I am always looking for new ways of self improvement, but the “HU” chant has probably been around for thousands of years.

Many years ago I had one of the first Mindlab machines, which helped me to break out of a very stuck feeling I was in at the time and I upgraded to a Mindlab Orion.   The mind machines guided you through Alpha, Theta & Delta, using flashing lights and sounds. 

"HU" chant

Around 2000 I started using the Centerpointe program by Bill Harris.  To start with I obtained really good effects and could see really clear visual symbols, that were mind blowing.  Each level of the  Centerpointe program lasted between 6 to 12 months.   Each level would have four cd’s which you changed after a period of time.   The Centerpointe program only worked on the auditory senses, by guiding you down through Beta, Alpha, Theta & Delta.   Each CD and level had its power increased by sub-modulating the frequency.

I used the program up until about the 4th Level, but I had some really nasty side effects, on this level.  A bad stomach, excessive hair loss and tension in my head.   I tried just using the program every other day and I still got the side effects.  In the end I had to throw away the CD’s and the side effects went away.

I would warn people to be very careful before using the Centerpointe program, in fact I would advise against using it, after what happened to me.

Since that time I have been very reluctant to use Mind machines or bin-aural beats, but came across the “HU” chant and its benefits.

I have a Bio feedback machine, so I decided to check myself before doing a 20 minute session and after.   What I have found is that my heart coherence and heart rate are improving considerably.  I am only in my first week of this, so I will be checking my progress over the next month and reporting back.

The day before yesterday, I had a real tingling sensation in the ends of my fingers and big toe after I had done a 20 minute session, which is a really good sign.  I am also experiencing a tingling sensation in my right ear drum, when I am chanting.

I am doing two 20 minute sessions twice a day.  Once in the morning and afternoon.

It is a case of finding a room where you won’t disturb anybody else.  Sitting comfortably on a cushion on the floor or a chair.  Pronunciation of the ”HU” chant.  Take in a deep breathand then say “HU” out-loud, which sounds very much like “You”, but with an H in front.  This will then start to resonate in a tone, the longer you go on withthe “HU”.  Take another deep breathand then say “HU” out loud again and carry on repeating for 20 minutes.   To start with you may not achieve 20 minutes.  Use an alarm of some sort, so that you can focus on doing the chanting, rather than checking the time.  You may want to visualise a “HU” in your mind, at the same time as you are doing the chant.

I would be interested to hear from anybody else who uses the “HU” chant and what benefits you are getting from it!

I also recommend using Marcey Hamms’ recordings, which you will find on her web site.  Marcey was the person who recommended that I used the “HU” chant.  Marcey’s recordings are just musical recordings, with no special tones and there have been lots of reports, that people were healed using these recordings and of other positive side effects.

Until next time, think positive.

Best regards

Tim Wells

Please contact Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner on (0044) 01909 561706 or via email tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com , if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.   Or assist your organisation with personal development courses.

43a Nursery Crescent, North Anston, Sheffield, S25 4BQ, South Yorkshire, England.

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Coincidences and synchronicity by an Hypnotherapist in Sheffield.

I became interested in the power of Coincidences, after reading an interesting book by SQuire Rushnell.    The introductory story in the book, was about SQuire going for an interview with a Radio station and being picked up by his favourite DJ on the way there.  What were the chances of that happening and what a powerful wink from God, to show he was making the right career choice.

In 2003 I was going to Sedona on a course, but I had to change planes in Chicago, which wasn’t the most enjoyable experience in my life.   While I was waiting to change planes, I was feeling a little lonely in Chicago and spoke to an American and was surprised to find out that his niece was studying at Sheffield University where I come from.   I then ended up on plane from Chicago to Phoenix sat next to a really interesting American and we had a really interesting chat, for the next few hours.

I really struggled on the way back through Chicago, because they were having a terrific rain storm.  The flight from Arizona to Chicago was delayed and when I got into Chicago, even though my plane hadn’t taken off, I wasn’t allowed on it.    Another gentlemen was in the same predicament and we ended up going back to our hotel that night in the same Taxi and I found out he was an American Marine, based in the next airbase to my brother-in-law in Norfolk. 

When I did eventually get a flight from Chicago to London.  I ended up next to somebody from Afghanistan who had emigrated to America.  He was going to pick his new bride up from Pakistan and visit his brother in London at the same time.  The journey from Chicago to London was very interesting.

Another smaller coincidence a few years later, was that John McCain was based in Phoenix and Obama in Chicago, at the last American election.

Have you any interesting coincidences, that have happened in your life, that you would like to share?

Keep positive

Best regards

Tim

Please contact Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner on (0044) 01909 561706 or via email tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com , if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.   Or assist your organisation with personal development courses.

43a Nursery Crescent, North Anston, Sheffield, S25 4BQ, South Yorkshire, England.

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Dear All

I completed my Master Practitioner training in 2000, after completing my training I came to the conclusion that NLP and Hypnotherapy were one in the same thing.    NLP was modelled on all the people who had been successful in the field of psycholgy and one of those happened to be Milton Erickson, who was probably the most famous Hypnotherapist.  Milton Erickson seemed to have had a big influence on the direction of NLP, which was co invented by Richard Bandler and John Grinder.

In 1990 when I was suffering from Panic attacks, I used both a Psychoanalyst and Hypnotherapist to help me resolve my issue.   I had been swayed towards doing NLP training rather than Hypnotherapy, because the NLP training seemed to be packaged more professionally and business like in my eyes.  Being a business person I liked the idea of our brains running along the lines of computers, that could be easily programmed.

I personally think NLP was an American marketing trick, to enable Hypnotherapy and the self help field to be sold more easily.  However when Richard Bandler tried to copyright NLP, it was classed as Public domain, probably because many of the techniques had been taken from other self help field, the chicken and egg scenario or re-inventing the wheel.  Please correct me if I am wrong in this matter.

I have always carried on looking at ways of improving myself and came across the Sedona Method in 2000.   Chris Payne previously of Life Tools marketed the Sedona Method in the UK, after coming across it.  To start with I purchased the tape series and went on an introductory weekend in Congleton Manchester, when Hale Dwoskin came across from the United states.

I then purchased the Holistic tape series.  I released on going across to a retreat in Sedona in America and eventually achieved that in 2000.

The Sedona Method is a number of very simple questions.  Such as “What are you now feeling”,  “Could you welcome that feeling”, “Would you welcome that feeling” and “When would you welcome that feeling”.    You either answer “Yes” or “No”.  It is better to answer “Yes” rather than “No”, but even if you answer “No”, you will probably release any feelings of discomfort.

There is also an holistic releasing part to the method.  Whereby I keep asking you a number of questions for example “Could you allow yourself to be a stressed as you?” and “Could you allow yourself to be as relaxed as you are”.  I would alternate between these questions and it would be best to answer “Yes”, rather than “No”.   By accepting both side of the dichotomy, it allows you to become at peace with achieving the goal.

I personally think the Sedona Method, is a very conscious way of doing Hypnotherapy.  I would use Hypnotherapy with my clients and use the Sedona Method on myself, to ensure that I am as healed as possible.

Please go on www.sedona.com, if you would like to find out more about the method.

Please contact Tim Wells Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner on (0044) 01909 561706 or via email tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com , if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.   Or assist your organisation with personal development courses.

43a Nursery Crescent, North Anston, Sheffield, S25 4BQ, South Yorkshire, England.

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Stress management workshops and courses in Sheffield.

To whom it concerns

I am looking for opportunities to work with companies and organisations in South Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire (Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster, Barnsley& Worksop) who realise that a healthy work force, is a more productive workforce and really have the welfare of their staff at heart.

I have had the opportunity to conduct 4 Stress Management Courses for Rotherham Learning Network, for four different categories of people, over a two hour period.   I have also hosted two day duration Stress Management courses for Pringle Computer Training, for an organisation that they already provided computer training courses for.

Personal development courses sheffield

I prefer to work with groups of ten people in a relaxed atmosphere.   I educate people a little about Stress, but my main priority is to help them to find a solution to excessive Stress in their life, rather than for them to come on a course, thinking that they can escape work for the day or another boring course.  I look at what causes Stress at work and in the home life and help delegates find a solution to it.

By having a more relaxed and motivated workforce, you will become more efficient and profitable.

My courses are both theoretical and practical,  but ensure the involvement of people throughout the course.

Employees who look after themselves outside work, come to work more motivated and productive, rather than thinking another day to get through.

During the afternoon I also take the delegates through a number of deep relaxation excercises, to show them how Stressed they really are and give them guidance for the future, in attaining these levels of relaxation away from work, so they come to work motivated and happy.

I can either find a suitable venue or come into your organisation and conduct Stress management courses.

As well as the courses being flexible to each individual who attends, I can also ensure that the course is geared towards the type of organisation you are, by understanding your individual needs.

Stress management courses in North Nottinghamshire.

As well as training as a Master Practitioner of NLP and learning many other self improvement methods, I have had a varied career.  I started in the Steel Industry, where I carried out an Electronics apprenticeship, gaining an HNC at the same time.  I then moved to Midland Bank (HSBC), where I moved from a clerical role to a Telecom Manager, gaining much valid experience and travelling all around the country in my job.  Over the last ten years I have been gradually building my business, working with individuals and have appeared on Radio Sheffield many times.

Having suffered badly with panic attacks in the early 1990′s, I paid privately to see a psychoanalyst and a hypnotherapist to resolve my issue and then retrained in the field I am now working in.  I have been on the coal face as they say.

Please contact Tim Wells on 01909-561706 if I can help you further.  I am a Hypnotherapist and certified NLP Master Practitioner.  Or if I can assist your organisation or business by conducting tailor made Stress Management courses.  My email address is tim@hypnosis-sheffield.com.

43a Nursery Crescent, North Anston, Sheffield, S25 4BQ, South Yorkshire, England.

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Dear All

The more I use word press, the more confident I am starting to feel about the product and improve my web site and blog.

Even though my web site is primarily about hypnotherapy, I will talk about technical issues on building my web site and anything else I feel strongly enough to talk about.

When I have been creating pages or posts on my site, I have added a picture in, but didn’t know how to wrap the text around the picture.  This morning before breakfast, I thought I would have another look at the issue and this time the answer just sprung straight out at me.  To proof I can do it, you will see the picture of the light house at Scarborough, one of my favourite holiday destinations in the world and a great place to relax.

The best way of finding a solution, is to ask the question and then go away and wait for the answer to come back.  Sometimes solutions to problems can come to you in your dreams at night.   Some of the greatest minds in history came up with solutions to great discoveries in their dreams at night, I always write my dreams down first thing in the morning.

To wrap text around your picture, all you have to do is right click on the picture and then click left or right align text on the text buttons at the top of the screen.   The solution was much simpler than I imagined.  The next issue I have is to find out how to make the pictures the size I choose, but I will resolve that issue and then blog about that.

Next time I post I will be talking about my first positive thinking hypnotherapy show on blog talk radio.

For now keep being positive.

Best regards

Tim

Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner, who can be contacted on (0044) 01909 561706 if he can assist you using NLP and Hypnotherapy techniques.

Hi Everybody

As well as being an hypnotherapist and blogging on personal development, I also have an interesting life away from my work.

Twenty years ago I went for some ballroom lessons with my partner at the time and didn’t enjoy the lessons at all, I just couldn’t take in all the different moves.  Rather than learning one dance before we moved onto the next, we were sometimes learning three different dances in a class.  After the initial beginners lessons I decided I no longer wanted to dance.   This was about the same time as I was going through a very stressful part of my life, which changed my career direction from working in the Telecom department at HSBC.

About 10 years ago I hadn’t given up on the thought of ballroom dancing, but didn’t have a partner to dance with.   However one of my friends at HSBC, suggested I started Salsa dancing in Sheffield, where I didn’t need a partner.

I went for the first lesson, which was in the old Claymore pub in Sheffield, by the side of the old Fiesta night club.   To start with we had to learn just the basic steps without a partner and I felt very self conscious.   When it came to dancing with the partner, it was a real struggle getting my feet and legs to co-ordinate together.   However I persevered with the classes for the next twelve months and there was a hour or two of free style at the end of the night.

After 12 months I started to feel as though I was going no where with the Salsa dancing and stopped going.  However I decided to go and have some private ballroom lessons at Drapers dance studio on the edge of Sheffield, Drapers also ran a 6 weeks beginners class in Salsa dance and I went along for these as well, as I didn’t need a partner.

I eventually found a Salsa dancing class in Dinnington and after a couple of weeks met a girl there, who I had known from a distance while growing up in Anston.   She asked me if she could go for ballroom dancing lessons with me, I therefore moved from private lessons at Drapers to do a 12 week beginners course in ballroom dance.

We then started dancing at Sheffield City Hall, Blackpool Tower and various other local venues.   We also learnt how to sequence dance, by following other couples in the room.

After a few years me and Julie split up and I stopped dancing for six months, as I got that used to dancing with her, that I couldn’t dance with other people. 

I started Salsa dancing again at Worksop where you didn’t need a partner and was much more confident than I had been when I had first started at Sheffield.   Rather than being a beginner I was now an intermediate dancer.   One Christmas however at the social night, they taught everybody in the room how to “Cha Cha Cha” and I decided I was going to start ballroom dancing again.

A lady who had taught at Drapers, where I first learnt to ballroom dance, had decided to start her own dance school at the Lyric in Dinnington, where I had first met Julie.   When I had the ballroom dance lessons at Drapers I had found it difficult, however this time at the Lyric, it was like going back through things again.

Now I could go in the City Hall in Sheffield and dance with a number of different ladies.

Eventually I felt as though I had reached a plateau with my lessons in the Lyric and decided to go to the City Limits in Sheffield, to improve my dancing further.

Eventually while I was dancing in the City Hall Sheffield, I met a new dance partner.   She was relatively new to dancing and was having lessons at Karen Byron’s school of dance at Thurnscoe.   So I went for further private lessons with Helen and then we moved into the normal classes.   At last I could Foxtrot, which had been the hardest ballroom dance for me to pick up.   I was also able to nearly do all the sequence dances they do in the City Hall.

I didn’t last that long with Helen and I started to find it difficult in the City Hall, because all the dance partners were much older, so I started doing Modern jive at the Davy’s club in Sheffield, where people more my own age went.   There would be about two hours of lessons and then two hours of free style dancing.   Even though I hadn’t been doing modern jive very long I picked up the steps very easy and was now a confident leader.

At the moment I am a little bit between the devil and the deep blue sea, I started to get bored doing Modern jive all night and wasn’t comfortable going in the City Hall and not being able to dance with ladies my own age.

At the moment I am looking for a lady my own age and build, who wants to learn how to ballroom dance well.

If I was going to recommend a dance school, it would be Karen Byron’s dance school at Thurnscoe, which is an old converted church hall.  I went to both classes and private lessons with Helen my partner at the time and seemed to progress very quickly.   Karen is actively involved in her dance school with both the private lessons and classes.  While me and Helen were having classes, the other people in the class used to change partners, which is unusual in dance schools, but a better way of learning to social dance with other people. 

Karen’s husband also used to help out with the dance classes in the evening.  Karen can be called on 01709-889977, if you wish to talk to her, about how she maybe able to accommodate you.  Karen learnt at Constance Grant’s dance school and went onto teach there, before opening her own school in 1979.

All the best for now.

Keep positive

Tim

www.positive-thinking.org.uk  (0044) 01909 561706

Hypnotherapist and NLP Master Practitioner.

Hi everyone

Turner wood cafe

My blog is mainly about personal development, but I will also talk about things that interest me.

 I live about two miles from the canal and can get there by going across the fields, at South Anston.   The canal has been renovated from Worksop to Kiveton in the last few years.   There is quite a stair case of locks at Turner Wood.   When you get to the row of houses at Turner wood, there is a turning circle for the boats and pair of swans hang out there.   You can also buy refreshments at one of the houses, from Dianne.

If you carry on walking from Turner Wood towards Worksop, you will come to the village of Shireoaks, where there is another cafe and a shop.   The trains also stop at Shireoaks station.

If you carry on a bit further, you will come to Shireoaks Marina.

A little further on you will come into the town of Worksop, the canal passes right through the centre of Worksop.   Worksop has quite a decent shopping centre for a town of 40,000 people.   However it does have the same issue as many existing town centre’s, but it is well worth a look around.

If you carry on further along the canal you can get to Retford, which is probably another 6 miles or so.  Retford being another market town, with a decent shopping centre.

Canal boat at Turners Wood on the Chesterfield to Worksop Canal.

This weekend I decided to investigate the section of Canal from Kiveton to Chesterfield, but this section is still awaiting a large amount of work.   The old Norwood tunnel has been closed for many years and did take about an hour to get boats through, it was that straight you could see light at the other end.

The tunnel won’t be renovated, a gorge will be cut through the old Kiveton pit site which is now a leisure area.   It will then be necessary to create a stair case of locks to bring the canal down to Rothervalley park.  The canal will then access the River Rother, before picking up the original canal.

As I found out this weekend, that British waterways sold off the Chesterfield canal at Killamarsh in the 1970′s and houses where built on that stretch of it.

I only managed to cover a 2 mile section in about four hours, as the canal is so overgrown at this point.

Further along the canal into Chesterfield, there has already been a lot of restoration work carried out and I will go and investigate this later.

I hope you found this interesting and if I can help you further please leave a message.

I find a good walk in the countryside, a great way to relax.

All the best

Keep positive

Tim