Okay, as a family we are unitedly coming out of the closet. We like going on cruises.Surprising, since none of us is a hundred and twenty years old; maybe if you pooled our ages together but we are not going there. Also, I have another confession; Rebecca and I are and have always been avid watchers/fans of Strictly come Dancing since day one.
Three weeks ago Strictly had their 'launch' show of this year. There was glitz, glamour and enough cheese to feed a small nation. There was also enough tanning spray to drown that same nation. But we loved it.....only just. Every year, the BBC seem to get a gigantic nervous tic and run around trying to fix things that aren't broken as far as strictly is concerned.. For example, when they got rid of Arlene and replaced her with that Dixon woman (can't remember her name and can't be bothered to google it either). Her laugh made hyenas green with envy and many viewers purple with irritation. Thankfully she left and we got Darcy Yah Yah Busell in her place. Even if you don't agree with her opinions or comments, you can respect her right to have them. I am sure you're nodding your head and saying 'yah, yah' in agreement.
Another thing of great irritation to me was their decision to have the judges dance their way to the judging table. We all know that one way or the other, their credentials include knowledge of, and experience in, dance. So why on earth would they change things to include Craig spinning like an out of control top, every single week. For a choreographer he seems to lack imagination when it comes to his own dance moves. One of these days he is going to over spin and land on someone in the audience. Darcy has definitely retired from dancing since she doesn't bother to do any dancing. She sashays her way, while Len strikes a pose. Bruno's idea of dancing appears to be swatting imaginary flies while being given electric shocks in strategic parts of his body.
Anyway, after 'launching' the show this year, three weeks have passed and Strictly starts tonight in earnest. Can't wait!
24.9.2016
Well, last night's show was fun. Once again, Craig spun, Darcey sashayed, Len posed and Bruno? Well, he actually danced! Must've taken his medication. Judge Rinder was a revelation! He spun around not unlike the hyphenated judge but with more panache. Craig acknowledged this (the dance moves not the panache). To paraphrase, "You (Judge Rinder) did the Shanay turns which I do at the start of the show and replicate every week." Well, I have a suggestion for you Craig. Why don't you stop shanay turning, sit behind the judges' table and replicate that every week.
Anyway, as usual, I went slightly off topic and published this post before I made the 'cruising' connection. This summer we went on a Norwegian cruise. As I've said before, as a family we all love going on cruises and this just like the others, was fabulous. Except this time there was entertainment from an unexpected quarter. The dancing. I am not talking about the super dance entertainment from the professionals, I am talking about the dancing from the passengers. For some reason, 'normal' dancing where couples hold each other and move to the music, occasionally following dance steps, seems to be a thing of the past. Strictly seems to have taken over! The female singer of the band would announce "we now have a cha cha cha" and the band would strike up a song quite unlike any cha cha I've heard. The flock (of about five, the rest were just voyeurs) would then dutifully and in some cases labouriously, clomp their way through the 'cha cha' or whatever dance the singer told them it was. I couldn't take my eyes off one couple doing the cha cha. The lady flung her left hand (heaven help anyone within striking distance) and the man simultaneously slapped his waist. Her fingers were placed exactly as the strictly judges recommend. She was quite taken with herself and so were we... taken with amusement. I wonder how the passengers who just want to dance normally in the good old days before Strictly got so popular, feel? I know I would be miffed but I am not. How can I grumble when we are provided with additional entertainment from an unexpected source?
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