Author: Dorothy McLean
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Hosanna in excelsis!
Our first New Year’s Ceilidh for Parents who love the Traditional Latin Mass (and their Bairns) took place yesterday afternoon in Ravelston. It was for many an all-afternoon event: Noon […]
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May I introduce?
I had the most interesting conversation the other day after Mass with a younger-than-me man. He was sharing his experiences of dating younger-than-him women and how deeply shocked they are […]
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Save us a dance
Friday night is live jazz night for a select crowd of Edinburghers. Chronological Shorty George was running late, so I picked an empty table all on my own and stuck […]
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A Year of Social Dancing 2025
In 2025, Mrs McLean’s Waltzing Party hosted seven dance parties and two ticketed dances, attended three outside dances and a ballroom dancing competition, and promoted umpteen dance lessons as well […]
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A Christmas Eve Dance
People of other languages must have their own memories of famous literary Christmas parties. This, I believe, is the most famous in the English-speaking world. It was envisioned by the […]
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‘Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day’
Three days until Christmas! To drum up the late Advent excitement, I decided to write a blogpost about that wonderful English carol ‘Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day.’ However, as […]
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A Gaudete Sunday Waltzing Party
“We never know how many people we have until we’re in the room,” I told our fledgling waltzing instructors at After-Mass Tea. I encouraged them to do their best with […]
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Marian Anthem for Advent
Today we are having a Waltzing Party as part of our Gaudete Sunday celebrations. As we always end parties and dances with the seasonal anthem to Our Lady, this afternoon […]
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Edinburgh Church of Jazz
On most Friday nights, jazz-lovers assemble at the Edinburgh Church of Jazz, which is what I call the Edinburgh Jazz and Jive Club. The club was founded in 2000 by […]
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The Lord loved Andrew
For many years—over a century—the simple baldachin over the altar at St. Andrew’s Ravelston in Edinburgh bore the text “Dixit Andream Dominus in ordorem suavitatis.” I worked out that this […]