Dirty Dancing was my daughters favorite film , we watched it together a number of times - Jodie was 11 and she no doubt had a crush on Patrick Swayze and I loved great dancing so I have to confess it was one of my favorite films too. It was a soppy film but oh was the dancing good. So now after MJ we bloody well lose Patrick Swayze - how unfair it all seems. When I was a kid I had a crush on a girl called Susan Baker. Susan Baker went to dancing lessons and I had a paper round. I saved my paper round money and paid to have a few dancing lessons - yep at the same dance school as Susan Baker. I loved it and when I got a chance to practice a twirl with Susan my 13 year old heart leapt. Problem was my mates thought I a sissy and took the pi!!!!!!! out of me constantly . I left my heart with Susan Baker and left the dancing lessons. If only I had know what doors it could have opened
In what sometimes seems an ugly world finding things of beauty can sure lift the heart (staying on La Margarita is one of them!) What I had no idea about Patrick Swayze was just how good he was at dancing what I had no idea also was just how good his wife was at dancing and what is incredible is just how good they were together dancing. Have a look at this clip of them dancing together -if it doesn’t lift your heart then we must live on different planets
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y0TWOttkVo
Of course I never meet Patrick Swayze why would I (and he never came to La Margarita) but I reckon if I had have done I would have come away thinking he was a nice guy - now I will never know but just in case he is reading my blog I want to say thank you Patrick for the dance mate -loved it all
This is David Cummings alias The English Gaucho writing from La Margarita wishing I had kept those dancing lessons up.
Hasta pronto
Conference estancia style
The English Gaucho
Here's why you should come and stay on the Estancia La Margarita ....
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Painting a Picture
The two white columns in the distance
I am not on La Margarita all the time. I like to travel sometimes and visit other places mostly in Argentina but for sure it’s always good to get back to La Margarita and it always surprises me when I do.
This weekend I came back to the estancia after being in Marisol on the coast. I had dinner and I decided to go for walk. I made my way through the park and passed the two white columns which mark the end of the park and the beginning of the open fields where we keep the animals. On the other side of the white columns some years ago I put five or six logs when I first purchased La Margarita for people to sit down on and enjoy the tranquillity and view. I sat down on one, the moon was full and the whole country side which seems to go on forever was bathed in moonlight. In the distance I could see three or four twinkling lights of the houses of some of my neighbours who are a long distance away. Behind me is a fir tree and roosting right at the top of the tree are two Great Rhea’ s (the largest birds in South America) who now consider it their home and call out to me sometimes to buzz off and leave them in peace!! I can see the horses grazing in the fields (don’t they ever sleep) and the cows chewing cud.
As I sat there enjoying the peacefulness life seemed perfect in the world – it’s not I know but sitting alone on that log it certainly seemed it.
This is David Cummings alias the English gaucho sitting on a log at peace with the world
Hasta Pronto
I am not on La Margarita all the time. I like to travel sometimes and visit other places mostly in Argentina but for sure it’s always good to get back to La Margarita and it always surprises me when I do.
This weekend I came back to the estancia after being in Marisol on the coast. I had dinner and I decided to go for walk. I made my way through the park and passed the two white columns which mark the end of the park and the beginning of the open fields where we keep the animals. On the other side of the white columns some years ago I put five or six logs when I first purchased La Margarita for people to sit down on and enjoy the tranquillity and view. I sat down on one, the moon was full and the whole country side which seems to go on forever was bathed in moonlight. In the distance I could see three or four twinkling lights of the houses of some of my neighbours who are a long distance away. Behind me is a fir tree and roosting right at the top of the tree are two Great Rhea’ s (the largest birds in South America) who now consider it their home and call out to me sometimes to buzz off and leave them in peace!! I can see the horses grazing in the fields (don’t they ever sleep) and the cows chewing cud.
As I sat there enjoying the peacefulness life seemed perfect in the world – it’s not I know but sitting alone on that log it certainly seemed it.
This is David Cummings alias the English gaucho sitting on a log at peace with the world
Hasta Pronto
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