Little did I know that on Christmas Eve every year, the Royal Festival Hall hosts a fabulous, free-to-enjoy, swing gig in the main auditorium. A brilliant swing band plays, great dancers, dressed to the nines, go along and shake their thing, and tons of families and friends go along to watch.

Luckily, my friend Karen did know this. So she and I had a wonderful afternoon on Christmas Eve cosily drinking mulled wine from the sidelines and making plans to join a swing dance class in 2012.

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