Last Tuesday evening my friends Roesmary and Kit arrived for a short visit. They came to try out cross country skiing, and she came to play chamber music at the biannual play-in organised by the Mazer String Quartet Society at Riddersvik on Saturday.
They were a little nervous about the -15C when they arrived, but soon discovered that it's surprisingly comfortable. This is because the air dries out. The snow was also extremely good just when they arrived.
We went out on the Wednesday to Rocklunda where the local skiing club does an excellent job preparing the tracks. They have an approx 1km loop round a football pitch which is almost flat, which is absolutely perfect to learn on. This leads onto their other tracks which are somewhat more varied and pass through beautiful forrest.
They had been to one of only three cross country ski clubs in the UK, which by an enormous coincidence happens to be situated in their town! So their only experience was one attempt using either grass skis, or roller skis!
They were very good students, and after a loop round the football field, we ventured into the forrest!
On Friday I'd invited Solbritt (cellist) round, and we played string trios. On Saturday was the excuse for the visit, when we went to Riddersvik. Because Rosemary had to get back to England she isn't able to play at the Mazer Monday evening which was the original idea behind the visit, but John, solbritt, myself and another very good violinist are going to perform Frank Bridge this evening.
They joined in with the whole winter experience while here, including shovelling snow!
Tomorrow I have to go back to work!
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