Blinkin' Flip - it's ages since I put fingers to keyboard!
Christmas is one of the busiest times for us in our organic veggie box business - and this year (happily) was no exception. You might think that after seeing so many sprouts and parsnips, potatoes and carrots in the run up to Christmas, we'd be sick of the sight of them - but you'd be wrong; we may be very simple souls - but great tasting veggies are hard to beat (especially River Nene ones) - and fortunately - we both love sprouts! This has meant though, not much time to blog - and not much time to scrap.
We finished work on Sat 22 Dec - and went on Holiday on the same day - so, much rushing around like idiots getting everything ready. We went off to Italy, skiing, and this time, were able to take along our wonderful three nephews, and my Mother in Law and Sister in Law. The lads took to skiing like ducks to water (we knew they would) and even my sister in law had a go - and really enjoyed it.
We tried telemark skiing - we booked some lessons - and hired the skis and boots. There were some positives to it; mainly that the boots were relatively comfy to walk in and the skis light to carry (not much in the way of bindings) other than that - it looks beautiful if done well.
However (and its a big however) I was not good at it - I can't believe how different it is to Alpine skiing . Its much more like snow boarding (which I can't do). I just couldn't get the hang of turning my shoulders into the mountain - completely unnatural for a skier. Russell got the hang of it better than I did - and managed to come down a couple of runs looking almost competent! Our instructor - Didier - made it look very easy - and when he brought along his "Alpenstuck" we thought he'd brought it to give us a whack with when we did things wrong - turns out it was supposed to help us turn (you can, apparently lean on it!). You live and learn!
Telemarking was definitely a good experience - but I am not sure I will be chucking out my alpine boots and skis just yet.......
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