Quote of the day

"Ice skating is a kind of torture for the ankles rendered attractive by the reward of feeling the earth move beneath your feet in an entirely uncontrollable manner ... I suspect these junior slideywizards are really only little Wily Coyotes who do not yet realise that there is nothing between them and the canyon bottom three zillion feet below, and when they do they will fall over, get a bleeding nose and some other skater will run over their ickle hands with razor sharp metal blades. Anyway that's how it seemed to me as I tottered round the edge of the arena, holding on desperately to the hand rail - the one element in my environment that didn't seem to have a malicious hidden agenda of its own".

Robin on the perils of trying new things.