Happiness is...

...having a day off for a bank holiday midweek, going snowboarding with just your ipod for company, arriving to find a virgin snow covered large car park, and doing doughnuts to your hearts content.

Happiness is snowboarding for a few hours in deep fresh snow, chicken curry for lunch, and not breaking anything.

Embarrassment is however...watching a skiing competition on one of the slopes, with about 100 skiiers and spectators watching, getting on the nearest chair lift, arriving to the top of the slope and realising that you are now stood at the starting line for the skiing competition, with no where to go, feeling like youre in some 70's Herbie film. not being able to go up as the lift stops there, and there being no other slope to go down. embarrassment is everyone looking at you, as you edge slowly and sheepishly down the side of the narrow slope, while very serious skiiers wiz past you in competition. embarrassment is finding that the edge of the slope is in fact the competition mogul course, which in fact you are now destroying by heel edging down the slope slowly. thank the lord for semi reflective goggles and not being able to understand japanese too well...ahem...