Dear Followers,
I spent time writing this blog post partly on my lap top and partly on my iPad. It was originally much longer and contained more pictures of the Tower Ballroom and some music links.
However, in attempting to update the blog on one device, it seems I ended up deleting it from another and all we’re left with now is this truncated draft version. I’ll try to add to it again later.
This blogging journey really is one of discovery and pitfalls!
It was with some trepidation that Linda and I set off to Blackpool on Saturday as this is what the weather was like for Saturday into Sunday:
Many people will know what it’s like to walk along the sea front at Blackpool on a cold, gusty, rainy night, but for those who don’t, you don’t know what you’re missing! (and it’s just as well)! As it happened the forecast was wrong. I can personally testify that, as it turned out, there were no ‘gusty winds’. Instead there was literally a howling gale!!
The reason for this polar expedition was the lure of a whole evening of music and dancing at Blackpool Tower Ballroom with good friend Linda. It’s the little known annual Soul and Motown Party night. It’s so obscure this is the best the internet can come up with to publicise it:
If you’re a Northerner of a certain age, you would almost certainly have grown up hearing your parents talking in awed terms about nights out at Blackpool Tower Ballroom. This is one of the reasons why:
It’s huge, and so impressive it features on the perennially successful bbc tv show Strictly Come Dancing.
So while Blackpool doesn’t have the weather it does have the Tower Ballroom and we went to it!
To be continued.
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