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Ice skating at beechenhurstb

I celebrated New Years Day by ice skating at Beechenhurst.

Every year they set up an outdoor rink, but if I’d have waited until now I could have done the real thing on real ice - our road was like an ice skating rink this week! It had been raining when I went skating, so it was very slippery. I didn’t want to let go of the side, but eventually I did and was really good at skating.

It was a very cold day though, so I only stayed on for half an hour. By then my feet hurt and legs ached. Mummy and Daddy thought I was brilliant and I really enjoyed it. I didn’t fall over once!

Playing in the snow

Sorry I’ve not been writing over christmas. I’ve been so exited but it is time to get myself in gear and start writing again.

Today I’m going to write about the snow. On Sunday it began to snow quite lightly. I listened to the radio and they said that it wasn’t going to snow long enough to build a snowman. I felt a little disappointed but said nothing.

Two days later it began to snow again and suddenly got very heavy. When I woke up on Wednesday morning and peered outside the window, I saw that it was a completely white world outside. The snow was quite deep, but not very. But later on that day it began to snow again and it snowed more heavily and heavily. By the end of that day you couldn’t see blades of grass peeping out.

Next day we went for a walk in the two inch snow. Friday was just the same with a little more snow. We went for our usual walk around the field; the snow was so deep I could bury my wellies in it.

On Saturday the snow froze into ice. We went for a walk again, like we do every day, and then we popped out to go and see our friend Peggy to check she didn’t need anything. When Mummy went in, the car engine went off. Daddy tried to turn it back on again but it had run out of fuel, so we had to walk all the way home and get a can and see if our neighbour had a spare can of diesel.

He let us borrow his old landrover to go back to our car and fill her up with fuel. I got in the car, Daddy drove home Pete’s Land Rover and Mummy drove home our car.