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Sunday featured me learning to snowboard, hurrah! Well, OK, starting to learn to snowboard. Ben, Simon W & I went up to Milton Keynes, where they have XScape which has pretend real snow inside. Most bizarre. I spent 3 hours learning to go down a hill backwards, and then forwards, and also from side to side. And fell over a lot. My arse still hurts (I would note at this point that all possible jokes on this matter have already been made by Pete & Ben. Often repeatedly). It was, however, Much Fun, and has confirmed me that I will be boarding rather than skiing in Saas Fee in Feb. Much less likelihood of buggering further my already buggered knees. Further 3-hr session in a couple of weeks, which should get me up to able-to-get-down-slope-alone stage before Switzerland. Whoosh!
I had a DAY OFF on Monday, hurrah. So I stayed in bed, & then watched silly film & knitted. Have finished my lovely furry jumper, and lo! it is lovely and furry. Then off to see PWEI, who kicked enormous amounts of arse. Hurrah for the Poppies. I do not like the Shepherds Bush Empire much, though. They need to either move the bar all the way to the back, or reduce their capacity by 10%; and carpet the floor. I spent the latter half of the gig expending far too much energy trying not to fall over, growl. Still a bloody fine gig, though :-) [bounce bounce]
Yesterday a nice chap came round to put concrete all over the floor; today he is putting Marmoleum (lino stuff) on top of that. This is v exciting, no, honest. As a result the kitchen smelt funny so P took me out for dinner. Splendid. The Italian round the corner is really quite nice.
Many of the above activities involved Trains. Trains are ace. I point you at this post here of
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Date: 2005-01-26 06:57 am (UTC)Low-traffic high-cost commuter toll roads, maybe, I can see Michael Howard doing the maths.
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Date: 2005-01-26 07:33 am (UTC)Step one, abolish national rail enquiries and route everyone to the integrated journey planner, so that for instance my friends in Oxford realise it is an hour and a bit and six quid return to come and visit me, not over two hours and thirty quid return.
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Date: 2005-01-26 07:39 am (UTC)Idle thought: Has the state of the art in concrete roadways improved to the point where they're not desperately noisy?
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Date: 2005-01-27 12:12 am (UTC)Just remember, getting up the slope is a lot harder than getting down.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:28 am (UTC)Anyway: with skiing, when you fall over, your knees have a tendency to go in opposite directions, and often directions in which knees would prefer not to be. Hence, loud crunching noises, pain. And, consequently, a tendency for me to be a bit under-confident about attempting things, because I know what the consequences are if I go splat. I think it's true of a lot of physical things, but certainly my experience of skiing (& it's also true for boarding from what I've heard) is that confidence is a major factor in being able to do stuff successfully. With boarding, your knees are strapped nice & securely in the *right* direction, so falling over, whilst bruise-inducing, is not knee-crunching. At least, this is the theory - I certainly know other folk who've switched to boarding for similar reasons. Hence, we hope, more confidence, and thus more fun.
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Date: 2005-01-27 03:57 am (UTC)"Remember that wearing a helmet does not make you invincible and even if you are wearing a helmet, the tree always wins."
(I shan't be wearing a helmet, personally. Nasty things.)