Having come to the end of the Strictly Come Dancing series, we have switched channels and now are watching Dancing on Ice.We like the fact that the competitors do have to work to improve their dancing/skating skills. Last night we were in absolute tears of laughter at Todd Carty's attempts to skate, and then the judges' comments set us off again. All the other competitors are managing lifts and fancy moves but poor Todd hasn't quite mastered the basics.
And not surprisingly the public voted Todd back on for another week.
As a youngster I would sometimes go and skate at the Richmond rink (where I chipped my wrist bone), and at school I even managed to persuade several friends to sign up for ice skating lessons so that a teacher had to drive us down to the rink at Streatham. I'm a very unco-ordinated person but I figured it would be more fun than the 'sports' on offer at school. The nearest rink here is down in Plymouth, 2 hours away. I wouldn't mind having another go though knowing me I'd fall and break something. At Christmas several places around here offer 'ice skating' but when I took all the youngsters along we were most disappointed to see it was on plastic slabs not ice and we didn't bother.
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