good morning, snow flake

walking home in the early morning hours with the boys through a snow flurry is very amusing indeed

o canada

yes! what a game – sorry, no football game ever came close to that feeling – my heart stopped about twenty-thousand times during those last few minutes – so fast, so good and so exciting – hockey was my first love and i’ll not forget that again – o canada, we stand on guard for thee and i miss thee dearly

skating 2010

just what i always dreamed of – figure skating with david

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skating around the world

i love ice skating and here’s a list of all the locations i’ve always wanted to go skating at

canary wharf, london – closest thing to a frozen thames – add a mulled wine and some fish and chips for total happiness

rockefeller center, new york – skating inbetween the world’s talles buildings before chilling in a cocktail bar off 5th avenue and going for dinner in chinatown

the canal, ottawa – in view of the parliament and the château laurier towards the river and freedom – a cup of cocoa and a beaver tail afterwards

write a message in the snow

winter lovin’

me, myself and my camera took a little stroll around the city today – here’s what we saw

a snow bear

an angel with an angle

icicles

a snow-puccino

a winter victim

an easter-egg

oh boy

i am totally known for my love of snow – and this winter has been treating me well – loads and loads of snow – but recently, i felt just like this wacky weatherman about the whole snow thing and every morning, which has me waking up and finding the world outside has yet again been whitened,  i feel like screaming and throwing massive tantrums – talking of telling nature, this is major depressive stuff, this is!

eighteen million snowflakes

it was so worth waiting for the snow this winter – the ground is frozen solid and it will stay cold for at least another week – never more likely to have a white christmas – now, this is perfection!

more snow

cambridge

very spontaneous day trip – instead of sunday mass at westminster abbey, i found myself boarding a train to cambridge with a french girl, a romanian guy and my austrian-californian friend this morning – despite the cold weather and my nose cold it was a beautiful day – and now i really want to finish my phd in style – cambridge style preferably

peter pan in kensington gardens

to do while in london:

1. shop – books, clothes, christmas presents
2. visit lady jane grey at the national gallery
3. portobello road market
4. go to westminster abbey for sunday services
5. harrods @ night
6. british museum – can’t believe i’ve never been there
7. bear in the square
8. find that damn peter pan statue in kensington gardens, which has eluded me before – all i ever found was the ugly guy on the horse

london

christmas shopping in london – here i come – i love cheap ryanair flights – o my, booked without luggage again, just carry-on – ah well, it’s winter, i’ll just bundle up and wear a whole lot of layers – it’ll be fantastic – hope it snows

last skating news

too showy, too flashy – fun, but that’s not what skating is all about – just too much – the romance is missing – he’s a show-off and skating is about grace and beauty and not about bragging what you can do, even if you can do it easily – ladies and gentlemen, as the last of my skating posts reaches it’s end, i present to you evgeni plushenko with an incredible performance – don’t laugh too hard ;)

shocking skating news

tennant trivia:

David Tennant hates ice-skating. For his ITV 1 drama Secret Smile he was required to skate, and kept falling over and bruising himself.

this is somewhat shocking, as is the film itself – david as a psychopath guy who drives a girl into suicide – ahhh, he’s still oddly attractive, but a lot more scary than i have ever seen him before, even more creepy than barty crouch jr. in harry potter and that’s saying something! – but here’s some photos of him skating nevertheless

and tomorrow – for my final skating post, you’ll get something to laugh…

girl skates

kathi witt – o, how i loved  her, when i was just a little girl – her ability to fly over the ice, pirouette like crazy and the eccentric costumes, she always wore set her apart from all the other girl skaters

o, and a little update on my skating skills – i am getting the hang of going backwards – it’s fun – more news tomorrow, along with a really shocking little piece of skating info

not bad at all

next to elvis, he’s one of my favourite skaters – he has this boyish charme that makes his performances absolutely fun to watch – and his feud with plushenko is just too good for words – ladies and gentlemen i give you alexei yagudin

and look forward to a jump back in time tomorrow – i’ll be introducing the girl, who kept me glued to the tv even as a four-year-old

skating – how it should be done

it’s winter and it’s cold out and i go skating every day – so here’s my new feature of the week – anything to do with ice skating – all new, every day

and we start with very poor quality, but the greatest ever skater to grace the ice – the canadian elvis stojko – he makes it look so easy, while i still don’t quite manage to go backwards or even get my leg straight up, when gliding along – and i remember him performing this very program a year later during some competition or other and me watching, riveted on the tv screen with my canadian friends in nova scotia – ahh, fun times!

the only one to maybe come a little close is even mentioned here at 3:10 and you’ll get a glimpse of him tomorrow

skating heaven

the location

corbie on the sea

paparazza shot

total cuteness

on a sunny winter’s day

walking in a winter wonderland

millions and millions of snowflakes are chasing each other down from the clouds – some settle on the trees and bushes – some fall gently to the ground and cover the world in an ever-spreading sheet of whiteness – and some are tickling my nose before they melt – it is perfectly narnia and i am walking amidst all this, silently wondering at the magic of winter – hour upon hour goes by and i don’t even notice – it feels like home and finally this winter i can shout out to the world, why it is that i love winter so much – very quietly of course, so i won’t disturb the perfect dance of the snowflakes – i adore winter, i do, i do, i do – and on nights like this i feel like an ice princess inspecting her world and oh what a wonderful world that is!

christmas market

 

 

mulled wine – chocolate-covered fruit – cotton candy – sugarroasted almonds – delicious smells mixing – lighted street decoration – meeting friends at every street corner – that’s the christmas market – today it opened and now it really feels, like christmas is just around the corner