I began Scottish Country Dancing in Grimsby in 1990 and wished immediately that I had discovered it earlier in my life. I was soon dancing two or three nights a week and travelling quite long distances if there was a dance, especially if there was a band. The dance Fishermans Reel was written for the Grimsby club and was the first dance I wrote.
I found myself unexpectedly being asked to teach the Scunthorpe dance class, so I decided it was time to take my teaching certificates.
For professional reasons, I moved to North Hertfordshire. I had made all the necessary phone calls to find the dance classes to go to before I knew where I was going to stay, which shows what my priorities were. In 1998, on a Furlongs dance holiday I met my partner Iain Hale. We have danced from London to Helensburgh and even did a guest spot on the P&O Cruise Liner Aurora (ask us about that when you see us!). We have moved round the UK quite a lot but are now members of the Dumfries Branch of the RSCDS and I am currently teaching the Kirkpatrick Fleming class and the Moffat Summer dancing.
Professionally I have worked in Information Technology (IT) for over twenty years and currently work as an IT Auditor, examining the way organisations use IT and determining if it is giving value for money. Part of that involves evaluating websites to discover if they are providing what customers want, hence the column in Dance On.
I began Scottish Country Dancing in Grimsby in 1990 and wished immediately that I had discovered it earlier in my life. I was soon dancing two or three nights a week and travelling quite long distances if there was a dance, especially if there was a band. The dance Fishermans Reel was written for the Grimsby club and was the first dance I wrote.
I found myself unexpectedly being asked to teach the Scunthorpe dance class, so I decided it was time to take my teaching certificates.
For professional reasons, I moved to North Hertfordshire. I had made all the necessary phone calls to find the dance classes to go to before I knew where I was going to stay, which shows what my priorities were. In 1998, on a Furlongs dance holiday I met my partner Iain Hale. We have danced from London to Helensburgh and even did a guest spot on the P&O Cruise Liner Aurora (ask us about that when you see us!). We have moved round the UK quite a lot but are now members of the Dumfries Branch of the RSCDS and I am currently teaching the Kirkpatrick Fleming class and the Moffat Summer dancing.
Professionally I have worked in Information Technology (IT) for over twenty years and currently work as an IT Auditor, examining the way organisations use IT and determining if it is giving value for money. Part of that involves evaluating websites to discover if they are providing what customers want, hence the column in Dance On.
