When the happy news comes that Paul's office is to close at lunchtime he persuades me to walk up to Hampstead Heath for an afternoon of snowy fun. Seems like the whole of London is up there with their improvised sledges. Londoners are an innovative lot. If we want to go sledging on a Monday afternoon we're not going to let the small matter of not having a sledge stop us. We used fertiliser bags when I was a kid (Yorkshire childhood) but here we spot tea trays, dustbin lids, surfboards, lilos, skateboards (wheels removed), bookshelves, recycling boxes, rubber rings and 'for sale' signs, all being used to slide down Parliament Hill. There were lots of snowboarders and a couple of skiers and a lot of people in their thirties and forties acting like they were five again. Great fun!
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