Midwinter blues

The half-finished piece I mentioned in my last post was really tedious, so I've started again from scratch.

For the last couple of weeks the weather has been thoroughly miserable, and I have to admit we’ve hibernated a bit. The house is cold, and it’s been too wet to go outside, so we’re we spending all our time in the front room, huddled around the woodburner. So June has been a bit of a washout, really.

We’ve got a few events lined up for next month, though. We’re going to see Stomp in Wellington on July 1st, and the following week is Iain’s recess, so, snow conditions permitting, that’s when we’re planning on hitting the ski slopes. In fact, Iain’s done some research into snow sports injury statistics, (geek alert!) and has concluded that snowboarding will be less risky for my dodgy knees – so we’re probably going to do that instead of skiing.

Iain brought home a snowboarding magazine the other day, and I’ve been doing my own research of sorts, into the lingua franca of the snowboarding world.

So far, I’ve managed to compile this handy phrase book:

Hey, cuz, mad skills! You are rather good, my friend.
stoked to eat pow thrilled to be boarding on powder snow
Yo, bro’, it’s dumpin’! Goodness me, old chap, it would appear to be snowing!
keep it tight work hard at it
run it ghetto don’t work too hard at it
Dope as! Excellent!
shredding heaps doing a lot of tricks

I shall have to try out some of these on our forthcoming trips to Mount Ruapehu. ;-)

Helen