I took to Scottish Country Dance aged about 14. It really grabbed me and remained my main interest and hobby, along with Highland Dancing, through most of my life - until a few years ago! I am a Life Member of the RSCDS and was, for a few years back in the 1960s/70s, a member of its London Branch Demonstration Team giving shows and cabarets for members of our Royal Family and the Lord Mayor of London, and many public displays. I have not danced in the past two or three years because there is simply not a group or club I can conveniently reach where I live.

As for ballroom dancing: I have never been able to cope with this (apart from some Olde Tyme dances). As a teenager there was a need for me to partake in social dancing and so I paid for private lessons with the then UK Ballroom Dancing Champion - Brenda Winslade - but I got absolutely nowhere with it. I think the problem was having someone so close to me!!

For a while, in my early days of living in London, I studied Spanish Flamenco dance, which I loved but had to give up as there was no time for both it and my Scottish dance interest.

As for getting on the dance floor and bobbing about on my own to loud, raucous 'music' - forget it!

Sad really!