Quick look busy! - Merton Council
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Baby massage<br />
Learn the best way to<br />
massage your baby from<br />
a certified infant massage<br />
instructor in four friendly<br />
one-hour classes. Babies<br />
aged six weeks to one year<br />
are always welcome.<br />
Courses cost £60 per<br />
course and include<br />
massage techniques,<br />
colic routine, discussion<br />
and more.<br />
The four week courses<br />
start on 4 February and 4<br />
March at South Wimbledon<br />
Community Centre, 74<br />
Haydons Road SW19 1HL.<br />
Find out more<br />
Call Vicki on 07723 091<br />
055, email info@vie<br />
health.co.uk or visit<br />
www.viehealth.co.uk<br />
Getting Mums and<br />
Dads back into sport<br />
Free fun sports and fitness<br />
sessions are now running<br />
in Mitcham especially for<br />
mums. The hour sessions<br />
take place during the day,<br />
three days a week, at the Ivy<br />
Gardens Children’s Centre<br />
on Mondays at 1.30pm, at<br />
Cranmer Primary School on<br />
Tuesdays at 11.45am and at<br />
Lavender Children’s Centre<br />
on Thursdays at 1pm.<br />
Active Dads takes place at<br />
St Thomas of Canterbury<br />
Children’s Centre on<br />
Wednesdays 9.45am-<br />
10.45am.<br />
Coaches from Fulham<br />
Community Sports Trust<br />
run the classes, which<br />
take place while children<br />
are at school. Childcare is<br />
also provided for mums<br />
with young children below<br />
school age. You can just<br />
turn up to a session but<br />
if you need childcare<br />
you must call to book<br />
as it is limited.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8646 4429<br />
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT • YOUTH • SENIOR CITIZENS • FAMILY • HEALTH & FITNESS • WALKS & TALKS • FAIRS & EXHIBITIONS<br />
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Walks and<br />
Talks<br />
Kids first<br />
<strong>Merton</strong>’s forum for<br />
children with disabilities<br />
and special needs is<br />
holding a lunch for mums<br />
and dads wanting to find<br />
out more about children’s<br />
centres in <strong>Merton</strong>.<br />
Come along on Thursday<br />
12 February and hear about<br />
centres in your area and<br />
what services they can<br />
offer you.<br />
Kids First will also be<br />
holding workshops on wills<br />
and trusts, physiotherapy,<br />
behaviour management,<br />
first aid and allergy<br />
consultation.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8687 4644 or email<br />
kids.first@swlondon.<br />
mencap.nhs.uk<br />
Israeli settlements<br />
Come along and find<br />
out about the Israeli<br />
settlements and their<br />
impact on the Palestinian<br />
economy on Wednesday<br />
18 February at 8pm.<br />
Maggie Royer will give<br />
her personal account at<br />
40 Spencer Hill Road, off<br />
Worple Road, Wimbledon.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8542 9618<br />
<strong>Merton</strong> Adult<br />
Education<br />
Try something new in<br />
2009 or add a skill to<br />
your CV. <strong>Merton</strong> Adult<br />
Education has a wide<br />
range of courses to<br />
suit everyone.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8543 9292 or visit<br />
www.merton.gov.uk/<br />
adulteducation<br />
Wedding courses<br />
Getting hitched in 2009?<br />
<strong>Merton</strong> Adult Education is<br />
holding a series of wedding<br />
workshops on Saturday 21<br />
February to help you plan<br />
your big day on a budget.<br />
Workshops include:<br />
Beaded jewellery making,<br />
9.30am-4pm, £65<br />
De-stress your big day,<br />
9.30am-3pm, £41.80<br />
How to be a wedding<br />
photographer, 10am-3pm,<br />
£38.50<br />
Wedding stationery,<br />
10am-3.30pm, £45<br />
Wedding day make-up and<br />
nails, 9.30am-4pm, £55.75<br />
Wedding table dressing,<br />
10am-3.30pm, £49.50<br />
Wedding day wines,<br />
10.30am-3.30pm, £53.50<br />
Find out more<br />
call 020 8543 9292 or<br />
at www.merton.gov.<br />
uk/adulteducation/<br />
weddingworkshops<br />
More than just birds<br />
Discover more about birds<br />
in <strong>Merton</strong> and how they<br />
are faring during these<br />
changing times. Roger<br />
Tomlinson, community<br />
talks officer for the RSPB,<br />
will be giving a talk for the<br />
Wimbledon National Trust<br />
Association on 7 March at<br />
2.15pm in Christ Church<br />
Hall, Cottenham Park Road,<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
Tickets are £2.50 for<br />
Wimbledon National Trust<br />
Association members and<br />
£3 for non-members.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8947 2639<br />
Quaker testimonies<br />
Jenny Ellam will be leading<br />
a workshop on Quaker<br />
testimonies on Wednesday<br />
18 March at 8pm at<br />
40 Spencer Hill Road, off<br />
Worple Road, Wimbledon.<br />
Find out more<br />
020 8542 9618<br />
Wimbledon<br />
Village pubs<br />
A book of pubs in<br />
Wimbledon Village has<br />
been reprinted after selling<br />
for £100 on e-bay. Clive<br />
Whichelow’s book <strong>look</strong>s<br />
at the history of eight<br />
existing pubs plus another<br />
dozen which have now<br />
vanished. The tales he tells<br />
include stories of prizefighters<br />
and poets, racing<br />
drivers and royalty plus the<br />
occasional ghost. There is<br />
a section on how the pubs<br />
got their names as well as<br />
bit about the breweries of<br />
Wimbledon.<br />
Pubs of Wimbledon Village<br />
(Past and Present) costs<br />
£3.95 and is available in all<br />
good bookshops.
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