Once or twice a week I go swimming with a friend. We’ve just started going to the pool near her house instead of the one near mine. Today, for the first time, I discovered it has an outdoor pool attached. It was sunny, and scarily warm, so I went out for the first outdoor swim […]
Once upon a time there was a little girl. She learned to ride a bike (slowly) and when she grew up she still liked cycling. That little girl was me. Now I’m a whole lot older, even if not that much bigger. When I started work, I lived in a house half an hour’s walk […]
Keeping a group of seven 7-12 year old boys together for 2 hours while changing rooms 12 times (circuit training) is a challenge. Keeping your cool even more so 😉 They are amazingly willing to please, as long as you tell them EXACTLY what you want them to do and why… Ok, so they still […]
Way back when I was small, my grandparents used to take us (my siblings and me) on holiday for a week in summer. When my folks arrived to pick us up, the grandparents could almost be guaranteed to say: “rather a week than a fortnight” and “we’ll think we’ve gone deaf”. As a kid I […]
Yes. I realise this post is months overdue. Naja, I suppose weeks is more accurate, but for some parts it’s enough weeks to be more than a month… *** I can’t ski without hobbling about for days afterwards. I asked my teacher back in February how long it takes to train your muscles to cope […]
*sings* There were 3 [already] in the bed and the fourth one said; “stuff that for a laugh, I’m going to sleep on the sofa” I was going to swap with her, but she wouldn’t let me. I had quite a guilty conscience until this morning when I realised she was the only one for […]
For some reason I can dance better with my eyes shut. I’m going to assume it’s because when they’re open, they fully occupy my brain with all the visual imput, too selfish or attention-seeking to let my hands and/or feet join in. Once I close them, I’m much more aware of what it is my […]
I’m learning to jump 🙂 🙂 And by jumping I mean riding over foot high snow ramps with a 5-10 metre glide up.. (Oh yeah, and the 2 foot snowpile on the slopiest part of the slope…) Didn’t break anything though 🙂 I even got half a second or so of air time on the […]
– though admittedly not at the same time! On Saturday I went skiing. I also went skiing on Sunday, but I’ve already written about that here. This is going to mess up the chronology of my posts, but hey… deal with it. After 3 weeks of thawing and piffling about snowing-but-not-settling, it finally snowed properly […]
I skiied down my first black run today. I didn’t know it was black at the time. It was 4:30 pm. We’d skiied for just over 2 hours on a new (for us) resort. We’d finished skiing on the ‘little lifts’ at the top of the hill/mountain and were on our way back to the […]
Behind my house is a flight of 130 stairs. The road at the top is called, “in Heaven”. That’s fitting, because it kills me every time I walk up them (at least once a day)…..
If it’s snowing when you want to go home, remember to put your ‘real’ shoes back on before leaving the dance hall. Especially if your dancing shoes have (on-purpose) holes in them. Even more especially if you’re wearing floor-length trousers.
A wet and windy night met her at the door and accompanied her to the entrance of the station. She was almost glad of the company. The day had started so well. That surprised her. Recently, her days had all started with a bleary haze, been greeted with a grumpy monolgue of varying lengths and […]
🙂 🙂  🙂 🙂 🙂 Skiing is cool 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 As I said in part 1, the piste is less than half an hour from my Ski-partner’s house, and he lives just over an hour away (assuming you use public transport and it’s snowing. If you drove on a sunny day […]
I’m going skiing tomorrow!! 🙂 Yay 🙂 It’s snowed quite a lot this week and skiing’s cool, so when I looked out of the window at lunchtime and realised it was the weekend soon I emailed a friend and we organised an afternoon’s skiing. He lives about half an hour away from a piste with […]