Sinister: snow

[Robin Stout]

Only seven posts yesterday, like the last bubbles in a bottle of 
lemonade. Maybe everyone was out throwing snowballs. As soon as it 
gets deep enough I'm going to steal a tray from the cafeteria 
and go sledging.
When I was twelve I went sledging down a big hill 
with some friends. My Dad was watching us and kept saying how much 
better sledging was when he was a boy, and if we let him have a go 
he'd show us how it was done. Eventually I gave him my sledge, which 
he sat on. He looked like an elephant standing on a little drum at 
the circus. "This is how you do it" he said, as he lay down face 
first and pushed off. Now my dad is slightly heavier than the average 
twelve year old boy, so he flew down the hill on this tiny sledge 
faster than anyone had before, with ice flying in his mouth, 
up his nose, and into the curls of his curly hair. 
Silence descended and jaws dropped as everyone turned to watch this 
slightly misguided grown man plummet to his doom. Snowballs stopped 
in mid flight. He bounced a few times, flew off the rather inadequate 
sledge, and skidded into a snowman. The snowman's head fell off and 
landed on his head and his pipe landed in my dad's mouth (no, sorry, 
I made that bit up). Anyway, it was dead funny, although my dad 
didn't quite see it that way - "ooh! Me back!" he cried and went to 
bed for a week.
Well, there you go - the perils of sledging. Play safe kids.
I hope it's snowing where you are.

Bye
	Robin
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