Sledging - new tech v old

Finally got J out sledging with Max yesterday.

As you can see they had a cold and miserable time...

It was also the venue for a competition between an old wooden sledge made by J and Max's great grandfather, and a modern flexible red sledge.

Check out the video (http://fourinkilburn.blogspot.com/ if you are looking at this on facebook), to see the result.

and after all that sledging it was a long trudge uphill...

but fortunately the old sledge could always double up as a bed...

A year without chocolate

I made it. I proved that I am stronger than the addiction. The whole of 2009 without chocolate!

To celebrate, New Year's day was "chocolate day", where three generations of Venits celebrated by playing a variety of games with chocolate biscuits,

including the balance the biscuit on your head race,

and hunt the chocolate egg while blindfolded.

As for me, I ate chocolate almost constantly from midnight until I felt so sick I could not look at another bit of it, thus proving that I still had absolutely no self control when it comes to the brown stuff.

So I'm going to have to abstain for another year.

Roll on 1 Jan 2011.