I’ve been quite slack at posting all round really, and I promise to do better, because there is such a lot going on here in Glasgow that I would like to tell Wingers all about.

First of all, I have found classes to go to at The Scottish Ballet and The Dance House (thank you for the tip Article 19.) The Scottish Ballet classes are, well, ballet classes and they are HARD. Everything goes very quickly and I have to work very hard to keep up. The great thing about this class is that it’s in a really nice big rehearsal room, there is a good pianist and the teacher makes quite funny jokes. Also, if you get there early you can watch “the proper dancers” rehearsing before class begins.

The Dancehouse is for contemporary, and I do a class that is largely Graham based with some Cunningham thrown in. Hooray. It is at the Scottish Youth Theatre and my only complaint is that the floor is not sprung. Ouch. But the class is taught by a guy called Martin Robinson, who trained at my beloved London School of Contemporary Dance a.k.a. The Place - which makes me happy since I am not the only person making the great move up north.

The Scottish Youth Theatre is an impressive building - a strange and wonderful mixture of very modern and very old. It used to be the Sherriff Court in Glasgow.

Our class takes place in “The Purple Room”. There are lots of rooms named after colours, but they are not coloured inside.

It’s the Easter holidays at the moment, and there is no dancing. Also, I have hurt my knee training for a (running) race, so I don’t know when I will be going back. Boo. I will have to make up for not dancing by watching a lot of dancing - watch this space as I have some very exciting things to tell you about later in the month.

I am absolutely loving living in Glasgow. What I like most is the fact that there is so much culture just jammed in to a tiny space and it is very accessible. For example, a few weeks ago my friends said to me on a Friday afternoon,”What are you doing tonight?” I said I had been going to see a comedy show but that it had been cancelled. “Well come along to the CCA (Centre for Contemporary Arts) - there’s a free gig to launch The Ballad of the Books.” So off we went and watched some bands, including the Trashcan Sinatras, whom I used to listen to when I was a small teenager.

The CCA is practically next door to the Glasgow School of Art, a hulking great Charles Rennie Macintosh building at the top of the very steep hills which in Glasgow are called Drumlins. Some people say it feels a bit like San Francisco in Glasgow. But probably no one who has actually been to San Francisco…

The CCA is another old building that has been made new. In the centre of the building there is a courtyardy sort of place where there’s a bar and a mezzanine level. It was here that we watched the bands.

All in all this is a wonderful place and I look forward to telling you more about it.

In other news, I recently became an aunt, to Megan. Here she is with her babysitter.