Hey Blog! The 29th November was Advent Sunday, and it seems that Advent has got off to a great start (Can you guess what I’m talking about? Snow!).
It was pure coincidence, but I have been extremely lucky. Last week I said that I would need a sledge before it snowed, so Mum and Dad looked on eBay and found one in Allestree ending on Friday evening and we got it! So now I have a sledge-for-life, a proper wooden one with metal runners. The day after we picked it up, it SNOWED, a lot! But it was so wet that we decided to wait until it froze…
That night, it did! And we went sledging on my new sledge, proper sledging, instead of the plastic bag sledging that we used to do. I managed to learn quite good control over the sledge, consisting of putting the right foot down if you wanted to turn right, and left foot if you want to turn left. To stop, put both feet down. The science of this is that putting a foot down creates friction, and friction saps energy from the movement of the sledge, and that means the sledge slows. If a foot is put down on one side only, then the other side is going faster, which makes the sledge turn.
Afterwards, we did some Après-sledge (taken humorously from Après-ski!) which was reading books, crème brûlée flavour hot chocolate and a mince pie.
