Celebrating kindness and sweetness today (and every day). Saying thank you, being helpful, feeling the love. Magical moments of humanity.

Three things to make you smile - A girl and her donkey, a doggo being derpy and a wild cat sanctuary at feeding time.

30 Days of Dancing #15 Pretty much rocked out to old Eddie Halliwell sets all evening. The recordings were raw, the clubs sounded rammed, the crowds were cheering and the tunes were mint. This guy, in his heyday, had the world at his findertips without even having to say a word.

30 Days of Dancing #14 I love lasers. Especially flat ones which are amazing to put your hands through when given half a chance in a club. Here’s a collection of them. Tonight it’s all about moving with confidence through the candlelight. Feeling light. Heart’s pumping. 💃🌟💕🌟💃

Fancy some beautiful trance? John O’Callaghan has done rather a nice set. Currently dancing to it and feeling the love.

Love a bit of Simon’s Cat. This one is particularly sweet.

30 Days of Dancing #13 I’ve got my old swirly chair back. I’ve found out this is a great piece of equipment to use whilst dancing. It helps me stretch my back out in a wiggly kinda way : ) I love using the world around to stretch, like surfaces, walls and chairs. I’ll try anything once…including people! A yoga teacher once told me he was always incorporationg the furniture in his yoga routines. I totally get where he’s coming from now.

Welcome to my winter cave. It’s very nice in here. The sheepskin on my chair has travelled round with me a fair few years. I’m so glad to have it out again. My old friend.

The dance tonight made me feel tight and strong and supple. My knees had started to twinge sharply before I started this challenge but now, as I bounce and move across the dancefloor each session, I feel oiled, confident and able. It’s a great feeling! I can resemble a wooden soldier when walking the streets outside, so to be supple and loose when dancing is a feeling I want always to cultivate. Maybe I should dance walk for the rest of my life? Like this happy, wonderful soul - Tommy Franklin aka Salty Rain - my hero.

Fabulous trance set from Factor B. Haven’t heard him DJ before. This was beautiful. Very uplifting. Love his passion. He’s also got a side project called Highlandr which is hybrid trance and I’m yet to listen to. Curious though : )

A parrot and a hamster made me smile today.

At 23, Bosh was the CD to have. Free on the cover of popular Mixmag in 2002, I’m just listening to it again and the eclectic mix of trance and hardhouse makes this set one of the most amazing. It took me a while to get used to old beats but then it starts to shine. So good.

47 Hello! In today’s episode I talk about harp projects, my love of chocolate biscuits, becoming a mad lighthouse keeper and letting my hair down these next two months. Cheers!

30 Days of Dancing #12 How amazing is crouching?! I’ve found myself instinctively doing a lot of it during dance time. Before this dance challenge I would hear myself groan as I creaked slowly down to pick up whatever was on the floor. Now I relish the opportunity. Woohoo!

I love natural doll faces. In the pictures for this article, when you see them side by side, there’s such a different vibe coming from each of them. I had a barbie when I was little. I loved her spangly bracelet and ring. Never did I notice her makeup. Why so much these days?

30 Days of Dancing #11 Bought candles today, turned off all the lights and spent the hour dancing in the dark with candlelight. It felt amazing! Dancing in the dark with soft flowing light is truly epic. It feels natural and safe. Listened to a new DJ too called Liquid Soul. 🕯

30 Days of Dancing #10 I love exploring stretches. I find my arms stretching up high and in wide circles during sets like this. My joints are happier since being more oiled and my stabbed shoulder has gone (🥳). This stretch out to my fingers is super strong up my wrist. Yummy.

30 Days of Dancing #9 I danced to old and new music tonight. A real mashup of history. I heard this old tune which always got me going (how popular was Tiësto back in the day?!) and this new tune which, when I first heard it, stopped me in my tracks for it’s soulful melody.

Dance Friends

30 Days of Dancing #8 Today’s dance was round the supermarket with the potatoes, criossants and mince pies. I got some smooth moves in with the carrots too ; ) Looking forward to getting back into this weekend and having a trance kitchen festival with an all day dance sesh. Woo!

The face of someone bashfully filling in a sneaky questionnaire to try and win £1000 worth of supermarket vouchers. 🤩🤞🏽✨

After getting boozy chocs recently I was ready to go one step further and buy the rum I’ve been coveting for a few years. It’s such a big bottle I couldn’t justify it before, but somehow this year I could. It’s quite sweet so similar to a liquor and has a warming after effect.🥂

Epic trance tracks - Giuseppe Ottaviani - 8K, Michael Kaelios - Out of Control (Original Mix), Arksun - Arisen (Sean Tyas Remix).

30 Days of Dancing #7 I never quite know where dancing’s going to take me and what my mood will be. I can be quite tired during some songs and then all of a sudden something epic comes on, my blood starts bubbling (a bit like the slime in Ghostbusters 2) and I’m off again!

Songs of the evening - Choice of the Angels and Big Sky.

30 Days of Dancing #6 This is my dance floor. Smooth, shiny, soft. I skid a little in my trainers as I dance. I like being a skiddy kid. I can feel my whole body change from blob-like to tightness. Getting a lithe, strong frame is an amazing bi-product of dancing for me with cbd.

I’ve loved listening to this early Armin Van Buuren set from 2005 (sound/video quality quite interesting). I searched ‘Armin set without talking’ because these days he loves talking through his sets. He’s a lovely positive guy, I love his happy energy, he’s a showman but I’m also there for the music. The build ups, the silences, the moments which only come if you give the music the space to shine and open you up. And this set shows where he came from. Where tunes were played for much longer and there was space to journey through them and literally trance out. I go into other realms when I’ve got the right trance music on. I don’t get there when I have someone going on at me in the foreground taking me out of my zone.

In this set there were none of the usual interruptions (well except the sexy long haired 90s style pianist appearing ¾ of the way through and playing a classical number), no ego, no having to travel a million miles an hour because the tracks are so short. Am I getting old? Definitely. Nowadays in a set MCs shout, demand and talk over the best bits (usually) rather than letting the music speak for itself. There’s too much fast paced ego on the table when really, what’s important is the intimate musical journey between yourself, the crowd, the composer and the DJ taking you to those high realms. It’s sacred.

I love the comments section in this video too. This one got my attention -

“Man, these classic sets were amazing for one single reason for me. They let the tracks drag a lot longer, nowadays the so called “famous” DJ’s only let a track play for up to 2 minutes, some even less than a minute before mixing it up to the next track, it’s like they’re in a rush to go somewhere with all that fucking mixing. Sets like this, where a DJ actually let’s a track flow and play it’s course before mixing it with the next perfect track were so much better to get into that state of trance, to get into the zone. I have hope this “style” returns, not all of us have a 1 minute attention span and actually enjoy music, so let the tracks roll please.” HP