Quote Originally Posted by mickd1961 View Post
All high adrenaline stuff but the walk back up to the top was a killer.
Same here but you still did it about a dozen times before you got tired and that was usually after hauling back up the hill a car bonnet (we Irish had only just started buying cars so old car dumps would be pilfered during snow/frost time)as no sleds here. We recycled before it became fashionable to do so. Plastic coal bags were the sled of choice as they were easy to carry back up for the next go.
But everything was exercise that we did back then. Going to the shops meant carrying bags of shopping. No wonder my mother is still alive at 94. They lived through the most horrible of times and if they survived, it was a testament to there ability to cope with life and with very little in life.
Now,today, we are afraid to live. Regulation regulation and more regulation.