tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post8780945267052301821..comments2023-12-12T11:39:43.504+01:00Comments on Blurb from the Burbs: Better late than....... BONK!MedicatedMoohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08609190990579743429noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-36187763834607367762012-01-04T21:41:42.596+01:002012-01-04T21:41:42.596+01:00Hi Amanda! Sounds like you and I could be 'ski...Hi Amanda! Sounds like you and I could be 'skiing soul sisters' !Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-86314075280867458472012-01-04T08:11:23.443+01:002012-01-04T08:11:23.443+01:00The starfish finish has me giggling like a loon an...The starfish finish has me giggling like a loon and remembering my be lame attempt at skiing. An indoor ice skating skiing place in Adelaide where my Canadian raised friend lapped me multiple times and a Very patient instructor taught me how to fall. Which I tried to apply the next bit going down, but instead of falling to the side to gently stop, I fell gently backwards, and then continued to go downhill, at increasing speed, reaching terminal velocity towards the concrete wall. My friend said the patient instructor did a classic double take, leapt over the concrete wall, and brought me to a non-terminal stop. Death, except perhaps from mortification, averted. I swiim now. Much less plummeting in swimming. (I don't dive, as I tend to scare the lifeguards when I do.)Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10204551212201891240noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-90032277760281484992011-12-30T08:47:17.463+01:002011-12-30T08:47:17.463+01:00Yes it does, Baino but I'd still like to try a...Yes it does, Baino but I'd still like to try again..... call it stupidity, pride and an attempt to de-humiliate myself :)Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-33516374505123532032011-12-30T07:51:22.368+01:002011-12-30T07:51:22.368+01:00This is why I don't ski...it hurtsThis is why I don't ski...it hurtsBainohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14156193098088048637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-66845917626557165322011-12-28T15:11:28.378+01:002011-12-28T15:11:28.378+01:00Thanks Dale - a bloody Mary sounds like a good ide...Thanks Dale - a bloody Mary sounds like a good idea right about now...Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-82042791282969104862011-12-28T13:27:45.642+01:002011-12-28T13:27:45.642+01:00Good work Gutsy girl, both for the effort and the ...Good work Gutsy girl, both for the effort and the retelling of the tale. Being a girl from the tropics with only a few ski trips under my belt, I'm all for long gentle green runs, and plenty of apres Ski. Love a bloody mary at altitude. thanks for the belly laugh, hope the headache is gone and the pride recovered. Hugs to you, LC and Sapphire. xx DaleAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-24647867962933485882011-12-28T13:04:11.655+01:002011-12-28T13:04:11.655+01:00Yep. Although perhaps 'crack' isn't th...Yep. Although perhaps 'crack' isn't the best word to use. I prefer 'with a lot more lessons and close supervision plus a helmet' :)Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-14527217334433219972011-12-28T10:54:12.225+01:002011-12-28T10:54:12.225+01:00You would have another crack at it?You would have another crack at it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-52236905847854154472011-12-28T10:42:28.416+01:002011-12-28T10:42:28.416+01:00Thanks River. LC came with me this morning to walk...Thanks River. LC came with me this morning to walk Milly and said, "I didn't force you to come you know," so I need to assure readers that I was instead just basking in his praise and encouragement - the decision to take on the blue run was mine.<br /><br />The starfish finish was, um, also mine and if nothing else, might have made everybody else present feel really, really good about their own progress and abilities :)Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-12330099042721341712011-12-28T10:10:25.071+01:002011-12-28T10:10:25.071+01:00I'm so sorry, I can't help it! I'm lau...I'm so sorry, I can't help it! I'm laughing at the image of you starfishing across the ice. <br /><br />Skiing is one of those things that look so terribly easy, yet takes years (well it would for me) of lessons and practise, unless you're born to it.<br /><br />I hope you're soon well enough to beat the zimmer frame grannies to the good chocolate.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-49308141930008407262011-12-28T09:59:16.311+01:002011-12-28T09:59:16.311+01:00'Unco' is me too, E-Child. The only grace ...'Unco' is me too, E-Child. The only grace I possess is the swift movement from hand to mouth when chocolate is inserted.<br /><br />Thanks redcap - now if someone would 'discover' me and pay me to think up such silly descriptors I'd be in heaven....<br /><br />Thanks Fruitcake - I'm now going to up-end any struggling beetle I see now, having experienced their struggles myself :)<br /><br />Elisabeth the bruises are now purpley-black and there was less hobbling this morning when taking Milly for a walk. I'll definitely go skiing again but would like more lessons than just a single two hour session.<br /><br />Ann O'Dyne, I rejected the hot chocolate drinks in favour of mulled wine and ate my chocolate in truffle and block form.<br /><br />Hannah, you'll be relieved to know that much reading did occur in the evenings - we weren't the 'Go Downstairs and Participate in the Michael Jackson Dance-A-Thon' evening entertainment in the theatre types - after dinner would see the three of us retire quite happily to our room. Me with a book and the other two with their iPads.<br /><br />Andrew, you're right. Just hearing the 'BONK' sound made me realise that helmets aren't a gimmick. Next time I go I'll be hiring or buying one and wearing it at all times I'm on the 'toothpicks'.Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-6089419852452242502011-12-28T06:44:59.370+01:002011-12-28T06:44:59.370+01:00Broken pride only. Lucky.Broken pride only. Lucky.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-58377262738853901112011-12-28T05:47:22.169+01:002011-12-28T05:47:22.169+01:00I'm in awe of how long you stuck at it! I'...I'm in awe of how long you stuck at it! I've always maintained that the only way anyone could get me to go skiing is if all I'll be doing once there is sitting by the fire with coffee and a book. Or my laptop, actually. Have to update that scenario for the modern age...Hannahhttp://wayfaringchocolate.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-66885817969920360932011-12-28T04:05:02.027+01:002011-12-28T04:05:02.027+01:00not Blurb From The Burbs but Schuss From The Piste...not Blurb From The Burbs but Schuss From The Piste.<br /><b>wonderful post - two involuntary belly-laughs, and a great avalanche of sympathy.</b><br />what a sweetie the guy who gave you a ride back was.<br />What you missed out on was those costly swisse finishing schools where the upper classes send their dumb kids to learn how to ski and to dive perfectly off Monte Carlo yachts.<br />I hope you got some damn fine apres ski hot chocolat. X X XAnn ODynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01159263330547329077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-262689576353861772011-12-28T00:25:54.844+01:002011-12-28T00:25:54.844+01:00Oh dear, Kath. I admire your perseverance. I was ...Oh dear, Kath. I admire your perseverance. I was much younger than you, in my early twenties when I first donned skis - in those days we did the cross country skiing, which is nothing like the downhill skiing you describe here, when I was in my early twenties. <br /><br />I refuse to go out skiing now. It's great for those who start early enough or for those with advanced balance skills but not for older folk who've never tried before. I'd have lasted five minutes and so yes, I admire your perseverance. And how are the bruises coming on? Still purple I imagine, yet to turn yellow? And you said over there on my blog that you had a trouble free Christmas.Elisabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04015624747225433940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-79622496769637906142011-12-27T22:01:35.415+01:002011-12-27T22:01:35.415+01:00"Wearing toothpicks"... love it!"Wearing toothpicks"... love it!FruitCakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15660225514077942415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-7034652888970258142011-12-27T21:48:00.182+01:002011-12-27T21:48:00.182+01:00Oh Kath. You poor blossom. At least you tried, so ...Oh Kath. You poor blossom. At least you tried, so kudos for that in my book! <br /><br />You did have some absolutely choice expressions in there - I particularly liked the ketchup analogy and the beetle in the flour :-)redcapnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14994418.post-57156213199144225132011-12-27T21:08:10.072+01:002011-12-27T21:08:10.072+01:00Ouch. I remember that well. And the added humili...Ouch. I remember that well. And the added humiliation when two and three year olds zipped past. Sadly I put the UN in unco. Hoping that your bruises and strains and sprains ease quickly so that you can againg win drag races against persons on zimmer frames.Elephant's Childhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06650565833097914052noreply@blogger.com