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Taught/practised on:
THE FLOOZIE IN THE JACUZZI
(R2x48) Sq.Set
Gill Jennings Birmingham Diamond Jubilee Book
1- 8
All set & ¾ turn RH, Men chase clockwise ½ way while Ladies dance
LH across once round to face new partner
9-16
All set & ½ turn new partner RH, Ladies chase clockwise ½ way
while Men dance LH across once round to face own partner
17-24
All dance ½ Schiehallion reel (Ladies leading & partner follows) to
end in original places
25-32
All set (facing in) & set facing next couple (1s face 2s & 3s face 4s),
all dance ½ R&L with next couple
33-40
All set (facing in) & set facing other couple (1s face 4s & 3s face 2s),
all dance ½ R&L with other couple
41-48
All circle 8H round & back
Repeat back to original places
Notes:
Bar 27:
Face on ‘1st corners diagonal’ & bar 35 on ‘2nd corners diagonal’.
Standing in Victoria Square, Birmingham, is Mistry’s fountain, a large sculptural piece consisting of four sets of
works named River, Guardians, Youth and Object (Variations), representing youth and eternity. River is
affectionately nicknamed as ‘The Floozie in the Jacuzzi’. It is a bronze statue of a woman, 2.8 metres (9ft) tall,
2.5m (8ft) wide and 4m (13ft) long. The surrounding pool is paved with Wattscliff sandstone.
It is also the nickname for a bronze statue in Dublin, called Anna Livia after a character in James Joyce’s
Finnegans Wake. A personification of the River Liffey which runs through the city, the river is represented as a
young woman sitting on a slope with water flowing past and over her.