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Rise and shine everyone. <3 :-D

Sunny but windy here but nothing has gone flying in the garden. :-S

Have a lovely day y’all. <3 :-D

Morning Joy :-) <3 Morning everyone else :-) <3

Sunny, bright but very windy here. Didn't slep much because the wind was so loud, but nothing seems amiss in the garden..

To answer your question from the other day Joy, no I haven't been dancing. As my mam would have said, it will be a cold day in hell before that happens :-D

Have a good day.

Kath. x

Morning Joy and Kath <3 <3

Back in the Land of the Living :-0 Gosh I dont know what I picked up, beit bug or virus, but it floored me. Still got a bit of a cough, but hey ho, on we go :-D

Sunny here, but none too warm yet. Slight breeze bringing the last of the leaves down off the trees.

Have a good day Everyone <3

Morning Kath. <3 :-D

Kath, never danced? Or not recently?

I have always loved it but not ballroom so much.

When daughter was doing advanced at Dance City (and was called on while in her teens to replace injured professional female dancers in the area), I never progressed beyond beginners under the tuition of the lovely Nick who will be well-retired now.

It is a family trait on Mum’s side and my younger sis trained for four years at the Laban Centre.

It’s in the blood, as they say. :-D <3

Morning Maddie. <3 :-D

Nice to see you up and about again. <3

No Joy - never danced altough at one time when we were first married I asked Bob if he fancied dance classes locally. The answer was a resounding NO. Even when younger and going to weddings and such Bob would never get up on dance floor so I have never danced with him, not even a shuffling dad dance.

Maddie - I picked up a virus or something about March and it took till September for the cough to go. Even now I sometimes feel as if I need to clear my throat with a bit of a cough. The doctor gave me antibiotics a couple of months after the worst was over :-S

Look after yourself.

Kath. x

Good morning all :-D <3

Bright and sunny here but a tad chilly ;-) ;-)

Good to see you Maddie. Take care <3

Joy I loved dancing too ;-) ;-)

Have a good day everyone <3

Morning Joy, Kath, Maddie & Von <3 <3 <3 <3 :-D :-D :-D :-D

Joy, never really been a dancer but I do like a good beat. Did ballet when I was younger but only because that is what young girlies were suppose to do ;-). As you know, I do like watching dancing though ;-)

Maddie, pleased you are feeling better <3 <3

Beautiful day for walkies btw.....sunny but fresh :-D

Morning Joy :-D <3 Kath :-D <3 Maddie :-D <3 Von :-D <3 Belle :-D <3

Sunny and windy here :-0 :-D

Morning Von :-D <3 , Belle :-D <3 and Fly :-D <3

No damage anywhere, I hope.

Not seen any damage here Joy :-)

Dear All

Hello

Hope your day is a contented one.

Take gentle care
Love EOS
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Afternoon Girls :-D <3 <3 <3

Just call me the Dancing Queen, what with all the clubs and dancehalls :-D :-D

Lost count of the times I have walked home with my shoes in my hands :-D :-D ;-)

Aftermorning all :-D :-D :-D

Windy and cold here with the occasional smile from the sun.

I loved Saturday nights dancing with my friend and our handbags.
Never had a boyfriend who'd dance so that sort of put paid to that.
Late partner wouldn't dance :-|

Morning Elizabeth <3 :-D Maddie <3 :-D and Island <3 :-D

Missed the last bus many times, Maddie. It was only when I was much older and married with family that Mum told me she never got to sleep until she heard me get home safely.

From the age of around 14 my school work suffered because I was out dancing so much but those teen years are something I thoroughly enjoyed and will remember with great fondness. Around 30 years later I was talking with an aunt and uncle and when the subject got around to our teenage years, they both said they were the best years of their lives - and I agree entirely with them, even now.

Most lads could not dance and simply eyed up the girls all night. When I got together with K, I was lucky because he could dance - at least rock and roll that his older sister taught him. Tried to get him to waltz and he had two left feet which I found hard to understand because he had rhythm.

I bet you all remember learning those typical school dances: Boston Two-step, Eva Three-step and a variety of other dances that I never did after leaving school - apart from the progressive barn dance because that was always played at the dance halls I went to.

Happy days and lovely memories to look back on. Somewhere I have a pic of me taken at one of the local halls.

Umm... have to say no there Joy, no dances at my school and never heard of those you mention. No barns either :-S

I don't know about lads couldn't dance, more likely they wouldn't. They would crawl out of the bar for the last dance though, but never in the direction of my friend and I. Thank goodness for that, I learned quite recently that it was known as 'the stiffie dance' :-0

At uni I was pounced on by a 'cheese grater' for the last dance. Shuffling round with a sweaty bloke wearing a string vest under his nylon shirt was the last time I stayed until the end :-0

Afternoon all :-) <3

Good to see you back Maddie.
Sounds a nasty virus or whatever that found you :-0

Chilly wind and lots of cloud, so the times we have seen the sun today have not been very warming.

We had ballroom dancing in our all girls' school in the 6th form.
When they decided we had progressed enough, the 6th year from the boys'
grammar school in town came to join us :-0

OH hadn't learned formal dancing, but was quite happy to make an attempt at it, when we used to go to functions at his workplace.
We got by :-)

Afternoon Gwyn :-D

Had the grammar boys progressed enough?

Afternoon all :-) <3

No Joy, we didn't do any dancing at school and when I went to the local dance hall in my teens it was mostly The Twist and The Maddison. Haven't heard of the dances you mention but then I was never really into dancing. We only went to the dance hall because it was somewhere to meet boys ;-)

Kath. x

I'm not sure that they had, Island!

Part of the trouble was that both schools had managed with half of the pupils taking the male / female role and when the classes merged, many pupils struggled to play the opposite role :-|

Not sure that the arrangement lasted very long.

With a friend,I was once severely reprimanded by a senior mistress for speaking to a boy over the school fence, at lunch time.
When she was told that we knew him from a church youth club, she was just a little less shocked, but said we were showing a poor example to girls from the lower school. :-0
Most of our teachers were Miss.!