That’s wonderful, Soo.
Yes, Twellsy, I did.
So disappointing, as is all the Strictly shite that has come out this year.
Carinthia. xx
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It is
I know from the inside that dance teachers are really really tough on pupils with any clue about right from leffft (john Sargeant springs to mind) and will haul limbs into position to ensure muscle memory
However kicking partners and offering any violence to spouses is NOT ON
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ETA
Being tough on them as has any glimmer of talent is nothing to what a director in the industry will put you through
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It’s the same with sport, & anything with a competitive element to it.
I don’t have idols, but I do feel that I look at people differently after some of these revelations. To err is human, but remorse is cheap in some circles, & available in buckets when one gets found out…
Carinthia. xx
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Bullies say “there is no way to get good except by paying me to bully you”. This wasn’t true even back when we didn’t know how learning worked.
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I confess that I’ve never much cared for Strictly. I’d have thought that ‘leading by example’ would be a very appropriate method of teaching dance.
Soo xx
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Meh. The slebs are avid enough for the prime-time exposure to put up with it [shruggity]
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Oooh, I beg to differ
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I really can’t imagine kicking Mr Bee - partly because I’d prolly fall over. The only time I have ever inflicted physical harm upon him was when we first were married and he was complaining about my smoking habit. He knew I smoked before we wed and thoroughly annoyed me, such that I threw my Zippo lighter at him. It hit him on the shin and drew blood. Worse than that - it ricocheted off his leg and clipped a branch off my lovely Grape Ivy. There - how’s that for a confessional that you hadn’t needed?
Soo xx
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Respeck. Asking for it, that was.
Ah, but I was occasionally forced to dance at skool. One’s sentiments then are very different.
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The only dancing I did at skool was country dance and I loved it. Not much kicking went on when Miss Brown was supervising.
Shamefully, I haven’t readied myself for the day (at 13.45) so I’ll go and do that. I’ve sent Mr Bee to the gym - he’ll be like Charles Atlas, soon 
Soo xx
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Bursting’ wiv dynamic tension, eh?
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And some. He’s gardening, now.
Soo xx
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May I have a moment to mourn my pet nail?
It was a thumb nail and well over the top of the thumb and very strong
But I was using a brand new Y shaped peeler and I peeled my poor pet nail
It has now been filed and I am donning black veil until it grows again
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Of course you can have a moment, Twellsy. Just the one, mind - my nails flake and split and I really can’t choose which to call my pet. They’re all horrible!
Sympathy, though.
Soo xx
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An Hard Stare will see my nails orff, Twellsy, & I am currently in the process of losing both of my big toenails… 
Am having a pint of ‘Tommyknocker’…
Carinthia. xx
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My nails usually split and break without being near any danger to them so strong nails grown in summer are treasured
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Very nice, TFM. Lovely wall, by the way!
Twellsy - I have been taking a marine collagen supplement for a few months and I have noticed a difference in my nail strength. Probably frolics, but I don’t dare stop it.
Soo xx
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I started on Boots pro retinol hand cream and it seems to help my paws
The pro retinal face and eye creams certainly do work for me at making my face a bit nicer skin tone
Lovely wee tree TFM
I have a pink rose rambling though my contorted hazel tree which is in the perfect hazel climate - temperate rain forest climate so trees grow like weeds and shrubs merrily grow to twice their predicted size
As for the eucalyptus tree - it is a monster!
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