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Well, learning anyway. Satuday 15th December saw Catherine and I doing 1 hour of beginners level 2 snowboard lessons at Xscape in Glasgow. Level 1 was easy, as you stand up pointing up the hill. I found it impossible to stand up facing down the hill (New Year diet required), but once I was up things went well. At the end of the lessons, we practiced proper turns, the idea being to do once half turn and stop. One turn, ooops, two turns, arrgh, three turns. I stayed up though. Catherine naturally assumed this was just me showing off as usual. Catherine’s attempt: One turn, ooops, two turns, arrgh, three turn (she stayed up too). So there! Unintentional showing off.

Anyway, next time we’re in Glasgow we’ll do the 3 & 4 lessons – Linked turns and surface lifts, so fingers crossed for Scottish snow at the start of March and we could well be on real snow, on a real hill. I’ll probably chicken out and go with the skis though!