So why no posts re rollerblading?

I took myself off to have another rollerblading lesson at a leisure centre near to the Marina. Duly arriving in time for the first hour I found out that there was no instructor that night. Undeterred I entered the sports hall (in full Darth vader kit , helmet, wrist protectors, knee pads and Speed skates) to find that 99% of the people there were either below the age of ten or their mums. I was initially regarded a little strangely but took full advantage of the large smooth wood floor and did at least a hundred circuits. I was just getting into perfecting my crossover turns and the first hour was up.

At the very dot of the hour music started to blast out of the speakers, the lights suddenly dimmed a star ball began to revolve and disco lights started to flash. I suddenly found myself in a "techno" roller disco.

As you can imagine I left the building like a scolded cat. I hit the car park and Hockey stopped at the rear of my car chucking everything into the boot/trunk and leaving the car park swearing to myself that I wouldn`t visit that venue again unless I knew that there was an instructor there. It reminded me somewhat, of the time that I took myself off across country to join an instructional class to hone my horse riding skills (having taught myself to ride, bareback, as a kid I wanted to polish my low level skills) I travelled from York to Halifax to join this class only to find that I was the only adult in a class of fifteen kids my mount was the biggest that I had ever ridden and the kids mounts were so small in comparison. The instructress was a tyrant and insisted that my mount needed a martingale or I woud get black eyes (which wasn` the case) whilst at least four of the kids got bloody noses from wayward heads whilst over the jumps.

All of a sudden the tyrant stopped the class and reminded all the kids that the new member of the class, ie Me, hadn`t shown that they could do "all around the world" apparently all the kids could do this and they needed to see that I could do it too. I was asked to position myself in the midle of the menage with all the kids around me in a circle I was told to let my reigns go and kick off my stirrups which I did I was then told to spin in the saddle to face rearwards and then forward again (ie around the world) which I did. I recieved a round of applause from the kids but the Tyrant didnt seem too happy. when the lesson finished a young lady came up to me and said quietly. She thought you were going to fall off!! Really I replied, I understand now why she got me to do it on my own, thanks for telling me. I walked my mount from the menage to the stable and the tyrant shouted for me to stop there and she would put the horse away herself. I couldn`t resist the opportunity to show her just how capable I was and kicked off my stirrups and loosed the reigns onto my mounts neck, promptly spinning in my saddle for two full revolutions terminating it what should have been a grand dismount (Tdaaaaaaah!) with one hand holding the reigns as I passed on the secont turn! Buuuuuut!!!!!! I didnt take into account that the horse would not remain stationary this close to his stable and he wallked on as I started my spin! I duly miss timed my dismount and actually fell headlong backwards at the feet of the tyrant. I expected some sort of comment from her but just recieved a curt "same time next week is it? I didn`t go back I should have quit whilst I was ahead!!!!!!!!! :o(( story of my life I guess !