Weeeeeeee!

Today was the first day this week that we had the time and day light (as it's dark when I get home from work) to go tobogganing with Bobsterette Jnr. We took her Ski-doo snow Boogie board thingy and found a place sufficiently vertical and covered in snow and ice. As Bobsterette Jnr was rather frightened/utterly terrified by the view down hill she insisted I went first.

Hoooooooooooly shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit! Seriously, it must have got up to around 30mph. Doesn't sound much, but when you're hurtling (and slowly rotating trough 360°) down hill 1" from the ground, snow hitting you in the face with an air temp of -20 C it feels pretty fast and scary. I'm not young anymore, and what being a rather husky gentleman, I feared that if I came off I could well do cause myself a significant injury. That, and walking back up the hill afterwards nearly gave me a heart attack.

I wore my new thermals so my extremities (just my hands and feet you smutty beggars!) didn't start to go numb for about 45 minutes - which was pretty good going. Anyway, it was great fun and I as I haven't been tobogganing for decades, well worth a trip down memory lane.