I tried to get one of those wooden foot massage rollers today but couldnt find one. I also thought about magnetic insoles cos I've seen them advertised, I might try them. I think I just need to warm up and exercise my feet on the floor before I go on the ice.

We have been complaining about the inconvenience of all the refurbishment works they are doing, but it will be worth it in the end, esp if it only takes 2 weeks to complete. I have been trying to second-guess when the DOI training and publicity will start, but I imagine it will be later than I would like it to be! If someone IS training at Guildford, it's bound to be after half term, and 8 weeks from then is 21st December, which sounds about right.

I'm keeping tabs on the fleece, but not intending to bid on it, I just want to see how much it goes for in the end. It's incredible the kinds of things they were selling after the tour - like bits of paper the judges had scribbled on, lighting plans etc.!

I was hoping Jayne would be on This Morning, cos they made a big fuss of Fern when it was her 50th birthday recently, but I wasnt sure if it would be too early for them to be publicising DOI? It's on 7th October, anyway, which is a Sunday, so no This Morning that day :( I dont think Jayne takes too much notice of significant numbers like that, anyway, she likes to go against traditions - like doing shows on Friday 13th and so on, just to break the superstition.

The time-thing is weird, cos in some ways it feels like forever since the 84 Olympics, esp when you think they have been skating together for 32 years! But in other ways it feels like it could have been just a few years ago, and they are still going strong and just as popular. What amazes me is that she was 27 when they won the Olympics (which is already old, by the standards of today's skaters) and yet she/they dont seem much older now - and they are still setting new challenges for themselves all the time - they just dont ever stop!

 HAPPY (50TH) BIRTHDAY TO JAYNE!!!!!!!!

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 HAPPY (50TH) BIRTHDAY TO JAYNE!!!!!!!!

Has been kept quiet ,as I haven't seen anything on TV. I did think 'This Morning' might do a piece. But if they did I must have missed it. 

Hi, I have been out of action and in hospital for a while. So I never saw anything that might have related to Jayne's birthday either. Hope she had a good one, relaxing with her family. :)

Have you heard that they are showing the Tour highlights next Sunday (14th) at 1pm! The Tour DVD is due out on 19th Nov. So we're getting closer to the action! I'm hoping to find out if anyone is training at Guildford after half term, but I'm not sure how often I will be able to go back there now, I have to have radiotherapy soon, which will be every day for about 6 weeks :(

I keep having trouble logging on to this site and having to renew my password most times - a real pain! I try to stay logged on, but then when I try to reply, it asks for the login details again, but wont accept them.

How is your skating going? They have started advertising Holiday on Ice around my area, which starts in Jan - I might go to that.

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Hi, I have been out of action and in hospital for a while. So I never saw anything that might have related to Jayne's birthday either. Hope she had a good one, relaxing with her family. :)

I was lucky at work ,while refurbishing hard-drive / dvd recorders ,to find a good collection of their old routines  which I copied to DVD.

Have you heard that they are showing the Tour highlights next Sunday (14th) at 1pm! The Tour DVD is due out on 19th Nov. So we're getting closer to the action! I'm hoping to find out if anyone is training at Guildford after half term, but I'm not sure how often I will be able to go back there now, I have to have radiotherapy soon, which will be every day for about 6 weeks :(

Thanks for the info ,I didn't know it was being shown.

Hope you make a speedy recovery.  

I keep having trouble logging on to this site and having to renew my password most times - a real pain! I try to stay logged on, but then when I try to reply, it asks for the login details again, but wont accept them.

I know that I have to login every time I come back to this site despite having the cookies allowed.

 

How is your skating going? They have started advertising Holiday on Ice around my area, which starts in Jan - I might go to that.

 Not too bad thanks.

I still haven't got my level 4 certificate as the dosey lot at MK have lost my progress booklet !

We have been told that we'll shortly start to learn how to use the piks. And everybody has been asked to use figure skates as some who hire them as using hockey skates. I know one thing that's on the cards is 'Bunny hops' which involves going up on to the piks.

 In that subject ,last Sunday while at the public session  I sort of did a pik assisted jump ?! I kind of tripped on one of the piks and did a full rotation with I thing a two-footed landing in a forward direction and carried on skating. Not sure what it looked like ? It wasn't planed in away and I was taken by surprise .

Still working on fooling my brain into trusting my judgement while doing anti-clockwise backwards crossovers. As I mentioned before I only have about 75% feeling across the bottom of my right foot from motorbike crash so when I lean into the circle on the right side the brain is getting mixed signals which aren't 100% correct. Forwards is ok but so far  I think this is the only thing that's proving difficult to overcome.

Once again I wish you a speedy recovery ,not everybody gets the classic side effects. 

I forgot to say that next weekend the John Curry Memorial Competition is on in Sheffield from the 18th - 21st Oct.

Not sure if it's being televised but Sky Sports might be worth a look (I don't have Sky) and Eurosport. I have access to a German Eurosport so I might give it a look.