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Posted on July 7, 2008 - by MG

Dancing at Carnival de Cuba 2008

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I finished editing the clips I filmed of the son band playing and people dancing at Carnival de Cuba last Saturday in sunny London. Featuring my friends Becs (in white with turquoise top), Deborah (red cardy, dancing with me), Nicola (white top and trousers, flowing blue-and-white overshirt) and Mel (halter-neck, brown-and white polka-dot dress), all of whom I’ve previously blogged.

Seems implausibly cold now…an artic breeze in blowing through my window at exactly the right angle to torment my wrist, which already throbs with strain from typing and the computer mouse.

I dreamt such a great idea for a story last night. I really should have written it down but as usual I thought it so vivid on waking that I wouldn’t need to. But as ever, an hour or so later and all I remember are fragments. In the dream I was shown a photo of a bunch of people who were known to have been behind the funding of a particular scientific project – a project that later had was found to have sinister connotations. The photo was an unexpected capture of all the suspicious parties together. And those faces were indeed surprising. I could identify some of them from my scientist days. One in particular was someone I hadn’t liked at all. In the dream, I had that delicious thrill of Aha!….followed by hmmmmm…

I’ve forgotten all the details, except the faces of the scientists that I recognised.

That’s right guys. I know who you are. I’ve seen ya!

Ah well, back to the manuscript.

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    Walter Lippmannn said:

    Thanks for the nice video! I’ve sent the link to this out to the 1200 readers of CubaNews, a Yahoo news group which has been following Cuba for eight years. News, politics, music, culture, sexuality, and so much more, from many points of view, are assembled, shared and open for discussion on this group. Some of the dancers shown are terrific!



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    Melinda (Mel) said:

    Hi! Thanks for the video – weird to see yourself dancing on a video :-)



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    MG said:

    And you look great dancing, Mel!



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    Cami said:

    I looove salsa!

    You and your friends performed really well! And it was nice seeing a gui with a brazilian-flag t-shirt. :-) Brazilians are good dancers everywhere! haha! ;-)



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