Salsa Diaries - Photos

FROM SALSA HICK TO SALSA CHICK..

Nikki was bored. She was fed up of going to the gym and fed up of wearing trainers. And when she was on the running machine her feet kept moving to a different beat - making it dangerous for her and others.
Something had to change.... she needed to keep fit, but wanted to have fun at One and the Same Time.

Then she heard something from her television set.
tennis scores - thirty love, thirty fifteen

She had an idea

Nikki had an idea

The next day at her local Tennis Club

Nikki playing tennis at her local Tennis Club

But things did not go well on court.

*Note for young people: Bjorn Borg was a Swedish tennis player known for wearing headbands and his lovely, lovely long muscular legs. He also won Wimbledon a few times, sometime in the 1970s


But it wasn't her fault her feet moved to a Different Beat.

Back at Home
	Auntie Lavender: “Don't forget to feed my fish. I'm off to Budapest for a line dancing weekend. Have you got my Chaps** ready Stanley?”
		**Note for young people: Chaps are trouser covers cowboys wear to prevent chaffing. Different to chaps.”

That weekend .....
	Fellow Scuba Diver: “... stop all that waving and bottom wiggling - you are causing turbulence and upsetting the fish...”
What was happening to her ...

	Not only were her feet moving to a different beat but she was wiggling her bottom without realising . . . Then she heard something from her wireless...
*Note for young people: Ravel's Bolero was made famous by Torvill and Dean, who won an Olympic Gold medal for ice dance in 1980 something.

The following day

Nikki tries ice skating

Ice Rink Official:
But it was not her fault etc. etc...
She phoned a friend

“For goodness sake. All that bottom wiggling and wearing flowers in your hair, and Ravel's Bolero ... why don't you just GO DANCING! Then you can do all those things - have fun and keep fit - all at one and the same time....”

Nikki tries dancing

But after Midnight. Disaster struck...

Nikki does not enjoy the dancing

Now Nikki was despondent. How COULD she have fun and keep fit at One And The Same Time. She was at the point of giving up her quest and buying one of those big tummy ball thingies to use at home when she was watching Gardeners Would when...

“Nikki, do not be despondent. I know a place you can wear lovely clothes, and flowers in your hair and rather smashing sparkly shoes, too. Where no one will chastise you for counting your steps and wiggling and laughing. WHERE YOU CAN HAVE FUN AND KEEP FIT ALL AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME . . . .”

The salsa fairy comes to Nikki's rescue

5 baking potatoes (as she didn't have a pumpkin or any avocados), 6 mice and a chipmunk later...

The salsa fairy insists that Nikki shall go to The Salsa Ball

Thank you salsa fairy.

Thanks to the salsa fairy Nikki did go to the Salsa Ball and she continued to do so 2 or 3 nights a week depending upon work commitments and prior social engagements.

AND AT LAST SHE WAS HAPPY AND HAVING FUN AND KEEPING FIT ALL AT ONE AND THE SAME TIME.

THE END.

Story and photos by Chris Penhall, graphics by Sue Lees, clothes by Nikki Parker

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