The Lowdown on the Hoedown

There is a serious buzz around the parish. It started a few weeks ago when news of this years barn dance hit social media. Before the women had even started to wonder if you could wear the same cowboy hat two years running, the local GAA club announced it was holding Jiving lessons ! Perfect. The KOK's and I were delighted as we like keeping fit and dancing and jiving ticks all the boxes. We enrolled immediately and over the past 5 weeks , under the tuition of the Passionate Parkers ( PP's) , learned how to jive...imagine ! The first night I was partnered with Twinkletoes, which proved a little silly, as she is a lot shorter than me and generously chose to " be the man" leading me to have crick in my neck in the middle of the night. After that I shared myself around the room, dancing with one of the PP's, Transformation Tracey and Fluffy Duffy. Last week I got lucky though, as one of the local ladies had a football game, leaving her husband to dance alone....or s...