The idea of a 'curly-haired Irish colleen' is funny - most Irish people don't have curly hair!

I'm watching with enormous enjoyment the BBC series on American folk, recorded and sent to me by a kind Cat. There's dancing in that series that really is dancing - joyful, fun, swinging, beautiful - not the joyless and artificial dancing, with those rigid, false smiles and constrained steps, that is so often seen in the competions.

And the people dancing are in their working clothes, their overalls, and ragged ones at that, or homemade dresses. But they blow away any primped-up contest dancer I've ever seen.