It's good to know someone will be doing their bit to advertize the best pastime in the world -- Scottish Country dancing -- so we can forgive your going bifurcated once in a while (not that it's any of our business, anyway!).

I too sometimes wonder whether the idea that you have to wear a kilt to dance might put some men off trying, but since all the men that have taken up the activity here in France quit soon beg borrow or buy a kilt, I now think perhaps the opposite is true ; SCD is a good excuse to wear a kilt -- for those that would not dare to otherwise.

If you want to forget your worries, meet nice people and get some healthy exercise, take up Scottish Country dancing. It's a worldwide activity, believe it or not. At events I have organized here, we have had dancers from every continent, Sweden in the north, Japan in the east, Canada in the west, and both S Africa & N Zealand in the southern hemisphere. How's that for international? -- and all the men in kilts, of course.

Martin,
in Grenoble, France