Sport

The first annual Falkland Islands Junior Games was held last weekend at the Stanley Leisure Centre.

Over 50 children participated in archery, badminton, cricket, football, netball or swimming competitions throughout the day on Saturday, March 10 and Sunday, March 11.

THE Kelpers team won the top Islands' golf competition The Falklands Cup on the weekend. (Islanders v 'Rest of world'). All results shown below. Article by Gary Clement in this Friday's Penguin News: March 16, 2012

(Kelpers in red and President's team in black)

THE Falkland Islands shearing team was ranked fifth in the world at the World Championships in Masterton, New Zealand this week with our very own Wool Handlers achieving third.

Image: Falklands boys front row centre (Photo by FI Sheep Shearing)

In keeping on topic with the NHS and its healthy initiatives; we have all seen the little plastic people in their ads talking about Change4Life but have you actually taken the time to read up on it or use some of their tips?

I spent some time on their website recently just to see how easy they have made it and if it is easy to follow and I was shocked by just how easy it is. They have a section for families and a section for adults making it easy to narrow down which category you fall into and want information on. In the adult section there is quick tips and fun tools to use to improve your health from fitness to healthy eating to advice on cutting down on smoking and drinking. In the family section helps with meal planning and activity planning that is healthy for the entire family.

The only down side I found was that the members section requires you to be a UK resident and does ask for a UK address. If you do have a UK address I would highly recommend signing up as it initially takes you through a questionnaire about your daily routine then it provides you with information and tips relevant to your answers.

If there is anything I can't stress enough and I've said it before; plan ahead! When healthy eating and exercise are planned into your weekly routine they are more likely to happen. So, get your weekly planners at the ready and work with some sense of order, for me it is colour coding; I use a colour pen (or colour font) for each category of activity in my week and make sure one of those categories is physical activity, in a family you may just use a different colour for each family member and one colour for family activities. Then, as one of the tools on the Change4Life website suggests, create a 7 day meal plan, this helps you plan for your grocery shopping and fits in with the time frames you have to work around with all the activities in your planner.

This is my online agenda (using google calendar but just as easy to do in outlook) just to give you an idea of how to plan your week which then gives you the time to plan your meals and get your shopping done. I like to refer to it as organised chaos!

Visit the NHS Change4Life website at www.nhs.uk/change4life

STANLEY Golf Club held it's annual Captain's Day tournament last Sunday.  The competition was very important this year as it was the last qualifier for the Falkland Cup.  A very good field of 25 signed in on another warm but windy morning.  Format for the day was stableford and scoring was very good.