Skiing Without The Adrenalin Rush

I’ve just been watching a BBC TV broadcast of the Winter Olympics from South Korea. Amongst the smorgasbord of snow and ice based sports, Auntie Beeb treat their discerning viewers to highlights of the Men’s curling and slalom skiing events. I nearly penned the latter event as downhill slalom skiing, but on reflection left out…

I Just Called To Say……

I had an atypical experience yesterday evening during a FaceTime video call with my twentysomething daughter Rachel. My youngest offspring is currently residing in the province of Alberta in Canada; where she’s temporarily working, along with endeavouring to fulfil as many of her bucket list aspirations as possible. Rach initiated the call, but within a minute of it commencing bizarrely…