This week – the prompt is E is for Exercise.

Of course there’s physical exercise – making your muscles work for whatever purpose, e.g. getting fit, losing weight, improving balance and co-ordination, and often there’s a social element to it as well, as in keep-fit classes or dance your way to fitness, that sort of thing. It doesn’t have to be in a gym – people do seated exercises at their desk, or while they’re watching the TV, or in a retirement village or care home.

Of course, Hercule Poirot ‘exercised’ his little grey cells, so it could be a mental exercise.

Then you have exercises if you’re learning a musical instrument – pieces of music that you practise over and over again, or we used to get exercises to do for homework – which we’d do in our exercise book.

There’s military exercises where troops rehearse various scenarios.

It used to be used to describe a state of worry or anxiety… ‘I have been much exercised by the intentions of Mr Manningham regarding my inheritance’.

We talk about the object of the exercise: the (whole) point or purpose of (something stated in the context… exercising our right to such-and-such…  an exercise in futility, something no doubt we’d document in our exercise books while riding our exercise bikes…

So, who’s doing what sort of exercise, where, when, how and why?

Let’s hear your stories, poems, pieces of descriptive writing – don’t forget it doesn’t have to be the complete story – as long as it’s prompted by the word ‘exercise’. Send them to louise.hulland@bbc.co.uk and we’ll have a look at them when we meet again on the 23rd June.