2010-12-07 Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year to all of my dancers and all who visit my website! In some parts of the country folk have had a difficult time getting around, no doubt many Linedance venues will have been unable to open in the worse affected areas. Most puzzling for me, one of my classes last week had 99% turnout, the other 25% turnout! Was the weather diffferent on each of these days? No, not at all. No actual snow fell till an hour and a half after the almost empty class had finished, the roads were clear, well gritted and traffic was flowing around the region. Here in Salford, we rarely get the extremes of weather that happen in, say, Scotland and Northumberland. It seems to me as if people see the snowdrifts and stranded motorists on the News, think that's going to happen to them, batten down the hatches and stay home! I came to this conclusion some time ago, when parts of the country were inundated by flash floods, most of you will recall the horror stories, flooded farms, lives in danger, police warnings? In Cumbria! However several of my dancers didn't turn up for their class. The following week one lady expained that having seen the floods on TV she thought she would take the Police's advice and stay home, after all, her journey wasn't really necessary, was it? I pointed out that the floods were 60/ 70 miles away from our area our venue at the time being at the top of a hill, (Station Road, Swinton) if we had had flooding, the people living in Worsley would be about a mile under water! She could'nt see it! :¬} | Author
Kerris, retirement age but still teaching American Linedance. Have 1 house, 1 car,1 cat, 1 brother that is my best pal too!
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