Strictly Come Dancing and Merlin - oh my!

Every October brings Strictly come dancing and Merlin from the BBC  and I look forward to both. Tonight Strictly begins the new show and continues again tomorrow. It takes me back to my childhood when I was 8 years old and my mum paid for my 2 older sisters and myself to attend ballroom dance lessons every saturday morning. The majority of the students were female with a handful of males so we ended up dancing with each other. Our tutors were a married couple and their daughter, who were all excellent dancers.
Some years later my eldest sister and myself have also attended line dancing lessons and tap.
My favourite style of dancing has to be tap - you can still find me toe -heel -toeing on the kitchen floor in a pair of my tap shoes - I have 3 pairs in red, black and white.
The costumes are amazing on strictly - the detail they put into them is time consuming to say the least.
Really looking forward to tonights viewing.

Then there is Merlin also starting the new series tomorrow. I just love all things magical and mysterious - combine that with historical and I am hooked. A time for escapism to another world for 45 minutes - perfect.