Disagree.

Anyone can see some of the danger, and certainly when that is "troublesome people".

I do adjust my enthusiasm and caution in accordance with the conditions, looking to where I want to be and where the hoons are heading is de riguer in a polka. Well, for sensible people. It does mean yer head revolves maddly and that is disorienting sometimes.

I find that on a dry dance floor the most dangerous things are the paper flyers, they are just as slippy as a bit of water especially when lubricated by dust. I move them, but use them to soak-up when I see wet. Lay and leave - it's a quick deal. Mops are hard to find, flyers are always there in profusion.

Maybe we should point-out. English Ceilidhs (or E-Ceilidh if you subscribe to the e-mail forum) is not gentile, it involes people who, because of their skill and experience, dance with more joire de vivre than is indicated by the length of that vivre. It is where the rockers, twister, pogoers etc go because they can no longer go to dances populated by yoof. As luck would have it yoof are visiting us right now and they will be the energetic cailidhnauts of 2020 and beyond. And I have to say the festivals I go to the vast majority of yoof have only one fault. Their youth. When did I hand the baton on for that?