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Cassie brought us a bird last night. Wandered in with in, looked up to check that Rachel and I were both there and then popped it down. How sweet of her. At least it was actually dead and not bleeding.

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Well, I'm back in the saddle today, and no stumbles at all. On Wednesday, there is a school class who use the rink. Mostly they just career round (boys) or go round slowly in big clusters (girls), but there is a cordoned off section at the end of the rink where there is a skating coach who shows them how to do things. I was watching her showing one of the girls how to do a turn and trying it myself, and then when they all went off to practice we got chatting. She was very nice, and apparently runs one of the classes they do at the rink which I'm definitely going to go to I think. And she showed me how to skate backwards! Unfortunately, I didn't really have time to practice, and had to dash off, but tomorrow, I'm going to get it down.