it was an icy kind of day today, my car was covered in a thick layer of ice when I lurched out bleary eyed into a cold Canmore morning.
the road from Canmore down to Lake Louise was little more than an elongated ice rink making driving a nerve wracking affair especially with huge trucks sweeping past on the other side of the two lane highway you negotiate just before you get to the resort
finally Lake Louise ski hill was little more than a thin covering of snow & yep ice - with a liberal dusting of board grinding rocks, all in all not ideal conditions for the first ride of the season but i stuck it out for a few hours before a combination of tired legs & one rock grind too many sent me scurrying for the warmth of my car & the slide back home
tomorrow we plan to check out the possibilities of a bit of cross country ski-ing up at the Nordic Centre, which is a few minutes from our house - i have never X Country Ski-ed before so it should be interesting, all i know is that teh skis are very slender compared to downhill skis & it looks like hard work
Canadian TV is poor, really poor - we watched a decades old edition of Blackadder tonight - it was the best thing on! The one where Blackadder has his Puritan relatives round for dinner at the same time as a drinking competion with Lord Melchot, to squeeze the show into a 30 minute slot & accomodate at least 10 minutes of commercials during this half hour the programme was savagely cut - i reckon the pesky programmes over here are a real nuisance for the advertisers
oddest thing they are tring to sell at the moment is a kitchen worktop appliance cookbook, where some loopy old guy is trying to sell you a cookbook for making gourmet food without using the oven or the microwave, hence you get chilli con carne cooked in your kettle & pizzas made in a toaster - why? surely if you are in a kicthen & you've got electricity you would use the oven to make your pizza & the hob to heat through your chilli???
on the music front i have just ordered the ne walbum by The Singing Adams - this is the guy from the brilliant Broken Family Band going solo for a bit, i've heard a few tracks & I love it
totd: Joy Division - Ice Age
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