This weekend, I fulfilled a bit of a dream of mine: to play pond hockey.

Ok, so there were only two of us, and one of us was wearing figure skates, but it still counts. We had a goal (Lucie), a puck, and some hooking, so it was hockey.

We were playing on the frozen lake at Aidan's parents' ludicrously sexy house (I think it was Lake Simcoe but I can't be sure), and it turns out that frozen lake ice isn't quite as smooth as fake zamboni-ed ice. I definitely struggled with the bumps.

It's wierd too cos when you're skating you hear this apocalyptic "whoooomph............whoooooomph" from under you, which apparently is the ice shifting, and now and again you skate over a thin bit and it cracks, which definitely shits you up a bit. Also if you miss the puck it goes for miles.

What's stranger is that you can be noodling around on your skates and then a snowmobile will go past you, and then a car. That's right; a car. Across a frozen lake. And they're not small cars either. Crazy Canucks.

So Aidan helpfully reminded me that I had said I wanted to do a polar dip, which is where they cut a hole in some ice and you jump in the freezing water. Don't ask me why I'd said this (drunk?) but he started cutting a hole in the lake, and minutes later I was stood in my shortest short shorts (as I only had a pair of jeans other than that, and I had to wear those home) and a t shirt in the middle of this bloody lake. After faffing around for about ten minutes I finally got in the cesspool of ice, which was gross and full of mud and leaves, only to find it was about a foot deep, so really I just squatted in it, until I was pushed back onto my bum. The cold hit me. I soon got out, waddled back into the house, straight into the shower and couldn't feel my feet for about an hour. Still, I dip a polar dip! Can't wait to hit that lake for wakeboarding in the summer.

In a week I'm heading home for muchos partying with my homebodies....can't wait, and yet at the same time, it'll be really really strange. Manchester 27th, Sheffield 28th...be there bitches!

Peace out.