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A Season to Savour - 6th April 2013 The day the Graukogel closed - 31st March - half a metre of new snow! It is the 6th of April and 7pm and I have just looked out the window into the gathering gloom. A large group of skiers is heading down the home run to the village. I imagine they have been celebrating the penultimate day of skiing in a hut on the Schlossalm. They probably have seen the weather forecast for tomorrow and have decided to finish tonight. Skiing after 5 pm when the piste-bashers are doing their work is not terribly sensible. These days the machines often pull themselves up the piste with a cable anchored to a tree. It does not take a vivid imagination to visualise what happens if the ski's go under the cable and some part of the anatomy hits it shortly afterwards. So the season that opened on the 7th December is now drawing to a close. The volume of snow this winter has not been that great but low temperatures have kept the snow firmly on the ground. Conditio

A week in St. Ives in February 2013 Painters Paradise - Porthminster Beach and St. Ives Harbour February is not really the best time to be in Cornwall but it is certainly OK for wandering by the seaside. The coldest and longest winter for a while kept us inside more than we would have liked. Mind you, if you are staying at Sapphire in Carbis Bay it is not a hardship. Found the cricket from New Zealand on Sky, pity its not on our 'council telly' at home. Plenty of wheels on board in the car but no room for the bike this time as we needed to bring a variety of accessories for TMIL. Not sure which is harder, pushing the wheelchair over the cobbled streets of St. Ives or pedalling around to Mousehole? TW and TMIL scan the beach from Sapphire What's for Dinner - Sapphire in Carbis Bay Coast - TW striding towards Hayle