Only been here once I usually train at home or not at all seems to be a nice enough gym great price…read moreworth a try has cardio free weights machines punching and so on no need for a 30 month total bankbreaker membership .

Walton Hall Park Sports Centre is located in a quiet park, offering a range of sporting facilities…read more Although it falls short of a swimming pool, it does have other excellent facilities indoor and outdoor. There are 4 badminton courts available in the sports hall which is bright and spacious for groups. However, the floor could be more solid. In terms of the gym, this is one of their better features. Though small, it still has all the usual apparatus you would expect a gym to have. If you love football, then here is a good place to come as they have a large synthetic football turf with real size goal mouths. There is even a stand for spectators to cheer you on! As a whole, this sports centre ticks most boxes when it comes to your fitness needs. They offer classes too which is always popular with the locals. In addition, they have a nice little cafe on the ground floor so you can sit down and relax once you've finished.

Menkind is a little shop full of little gadgets and the perfect store for his gifts! The store…read moreranges from a variety of electronic items for novelty fun and some stuff educational; for example, I saw a hovering toy UFO in front of my very eyes and my word did it look so convincing yet this was no illusion; in fact, this was due to the laws of physics and electromagnetism as I knew from my studies! Well, I have actually learnt something unique and interesting from my days back at school!! The products are generally suitable for all ages from infants to adults and sells popular games and boys toys. This store is quite inviting to the eye and ideal for buying gifts for little and big boys!

I'm always wary of the kinds of 'big kids toys' places like Menkind sell and the sort of arrested…read moredevelopment they seem to encourage; we're breeding a country of man-children more interested in tinkering with polystyrene remote-controlled helicopters or playing around with miniature foozball tables than they are with trying to support their families. It's a serious problem. I'm seriously super-serious. As well as all those sort of easy stocking fillers and birthday gifts - beer glass cufflinks, Rocky bathrobes and Top Gear related memorabilia - there is a small selection of overpriced watches by Police and some far stranger items including the BBQ branding kit - "The BBQ Branding Iron makes customizing food from the outdoor grill easy" - I always fancied branding my meat before but it would have just been too difficult, thank the lord those days of eating meat without words seared into them are over. Fun for a look around but does anybody really want or need any of the stuff in here? Well, except the crossbow. I desperately need that.

Local Community Resource Centre, funded in part by The National Lottery. The Millennium Centre has…read moreown car park and a friendly helpful staff. The Centre houses the local library and is a useful resource centre offering help, information and support on a broad range of matters such as job-seeking, health and well-being, adult education and more. There is a small gym on the premises for which membership is not required, just a very modest pay-as-you-go fee with a sauna and the option of the support of a personal trainer for a further fee. Numerous fitness classes also are held.There is a support worker available who can offer informal one-to-one advice on a variety of issues. Students from the local college offer hairdressing at reduced rates and there is a cafe serving healthy freshly-prepared meals, again at a very reasonable cost. If you live locally, it is well worth investigating for yourself what the Millenium Centre has to offer.

Coffee tables Console tables…read moreSide-tables Floor lamps Wall lamps Light-boxes Mirrors Statues & Buddahas A few doors down from Zen Furniture, the company have a more interesting and eye-catching interiors shop with smaller pieces of furniture. Alongside the obligatory wooden coffee tables, bookshelves and side tables there are some beautiful, antique silver chests, fun lamps, big mirrors and hand-carved wooden sculptures and ornaments from buddhas and hindu gods to animals. Prices are reasonable for good quality teak, oak and mango wood and there's currently a sale on.

Part one of the Zen Furniture experience and I find myself in a world of Buddhas, little Chinese…read morefellas with sticks and a gold effect deer's head to be mounted, urm, God knows frankly? Maybe there is a new trend for gentleman club interiors with a modern twist? Hunting cabin/Tony Soprano chic? Is it just Liverpool or is a nationwide obsession with all things eastern and Buddhist? I know we have a reputation as being space cadets but this faux Eastern stuff is everywhere. Are we scousers so buried under the strain of modern living and the hustle and bustle of our work-a-day lives that we need to turn our homes into temples? I guess I can see how filling the house with lots of little bald fellas chubbier than myself will increase my tranquility and one-ness with the world. The funny side to the commercialism of ancient traditions was experienced by myself whilst in here as a couple wanted to find something meaningful for their home and spotted 'ahhh, a li'l cryin' fella', 'no, no' said the milf saleswoman 'that's a meditating Buddha', the woman looked puzzled and pointed to the box 'it says, li'l crying priest der...not sure how dat 'elps me chi?', 'er, well at least it's not you crying?', 'oh yeah'. Sold!...and yes milf.

Its every child's dream going into a store full of Toys…read more This store is huge and is well stocked and has a section called Babies R Us. You can get hold of little stocking fillers to big bikes. It is situated in the Greyhound retail park with ample free parking. This store is open until late most evenings

A great place - the kids love going and we can spend hours just looking around in there, the little…read moreones can ride the bikes and things around! We once had to take back a TV/DVD combi, which the DVD part had broken on - we didnt have the box anymore and they just gave us a full refund as there was nothing there we wanted to replace it with :-)

This is one of my favourite stores, I like it because it is well stocked and has a good variety of…read moreproducts to choose from. Im addicted to collecting boots points so Im always popping in and out of this shop and picking up bargains. Boots always have good 3for2 offers on their ranges, for example as I type they have a 3for2 offer on their range of vitamins which means I can stock up on multivitamins, save money AND collect points too. Result! Be sure to check the little atm machine to see what bonus points you can collect by purchasing certain products! The staff are very helpful and friendly too which is an added bonus.

Invited by a colleague for a few games of squash I found myself in Barnton, Cheshire, one grey and…read morechilly Sunday. It's an unusual place to visit, with 60s, 70s and 90s housing estates nestled inbetween 18th century farmhouses, all surrounded by lovely countryside. Barnton Cricket Club is somewhat hidden down a short track, but it opens out to a gorgeous view of the Cheshire 'plains' and I reckon it would be lovely to sit out watching the locals play cricket in the summer. The two squash courts there are well maintained (Barnton have their own team and play in a NW league so membership fees pay for its upkeep). The club house also has an annual beer festival (coincidentally running at that very time I visited!). A couple of half pints of the local wares made for a thoroughly pleasant afternoon.