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UPDATED EDIT 31/10/2025 at 10:30pm

Further to recent updates, we are looking to ease ourselves back into providing massage services next week. It's been a very difficult year for us, for many reasons, but not equally or consistently difficult all the time. There have been good weeks and bad weeks. We have each lost a parent in the last three months, with the latest loss being very recent. As you might imagine, it's not always been easy, or even possible, to put on a smiley face when we greet clients at the door, especially at times when we may have just had to deal with something quite testing or emotionally draining the hour before. This has meant we have scaled back the number of appointments we've taken on, and tried to schedule them for times when we anticipated we would be in an appropriate frame of mind. Unfortunately, there have been odd occasions when we have chosen to cancel or reschedule an appointment rather than go ahead when we knew we were not in the right state of mind that the client expects or deserves.

Of our four parents, one still remains and is not at all well. But it also means that the demands on our time and energy are not as much as they were over the last six months, when we had more to deal with. We are able to keep the appointments already made for next week, and we can also take a booking for anytime on Tuesday 4th and anytime on Friday 7th.

These are personal details that some folks might find strange we would share on our website, but we have been so erratic and inconsistent in how and when we take bookings this year, that we feel some words of explanation might be helpful, especially for our longer-standing clients who have probably been wondering what the hell is going on and why we aren't always available the way used to be.

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ON A DIFFERENT NOTE, NOTHING TO DO WITH MASSAGE... Val's father has no further use of his motability scooter, so it needs a new home. It's one of the more expensive models and is in excellent condition, having not been used all that much. The make/model is a Rascal Pioneer and its about 16months old. These are selling new for between £2250 and £3100 depending on where you shop. We are asking £995 but we're open to offers. It's a class 3 and goes up to 8mph, which means it can go on the road as well as the pavement. It needs registering with the DVLA (something Val's dad neglected to do) and this, I'm told, is free to do. Message us if interested. The only thing is it doesn't fold down, so you'll need a large vehicle and an extra pair of hands to transport it. Comes with battery charger and handbook.

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PRICE CHANGES COMING UP. Please note price changes from 10th November, listed on our Prices and How to Book page.

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NEW FACEBOOK PAGE. We have set up and are trialling a facebook page for Timeout Therapies. We'll take it a week at a time and see how things go. I won't be endlessly posting, just now and again when there's something to say. We had a facebook page many years ago, but I'm not sure we managed it in the best way. There was also the issue of facebook's algorithms which decide whether or not people who follow or "like" our page actually get to see our posts! We discovered, last time, that unless followers regularly clicked "like" on our posts then facebook's automation quickly decided it wasn't worth showing our posts to them. So we'll suck it and see... It's a "personal" page, even though it's titled Timeout Therapies. So it connects on friend requests. Message me if you have any trouble. Here's the link..... Facebook