hibernating – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com author | illustrator | digital designer Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:44:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://shepline.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-shepline-white-on-green-square_512-32x32.jpg hibernating – T E Shepherd https://shepline.com 32 32 Wild and Windy https://shepline.com/2008/01/13/wild-and-windy/ https://shepline.com/2008/01/13/wild-and-windy/#respond Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:43:00 +0000 http://journal.shepline.com/wild-and-windy/ I guess we got it lucky today. Some places, it seems, had lots and lots of rain. For us, it was just grey. Grey, grey, and very blustery. We cleaned the house, I worked on some more of my novel, and we went and fed the ducks on Thames in Maidenhead. Amongst the Mallards and the geese, there was one Little Turfted Duck that I found myself feeling a special bond with. He was so cute.

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After an early lea (*see entry dated 8 December) we headed out through a lowering sky with large black birds gathering in the sky with the skeletal frames of tree sihouetted against the rain, and onto the M4 into London. And so after a while we arrived at the Natural History Museum and met up with Sue and Steve and Debbie and Matt for ice skating. To say that I was nervous would be an understatement. I was terrified. The only other time that I have been ice skating was 29 years ago, when I was five and holding my mummy’s hand on pond in New York state…



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…it was great fun though! Yes, I fell over three times, but I didn’t do myself any injuries, and I went on to do four unaided circuits of the rink. Okay, so I wasn’t the most graceful creature on the ice, but I did it! When we walked past again later in the evening on our way back to the car, I just wanted to get out there again and have another go! 🙂
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