To sit a the window and watch my son with binoculars today?

[QuintessentiallyAnEmptyGrave]

His entire school is at the slopes behind my house. Even infant department, where he is.
Ok, he is pretty good at downhill skiing, as are they all, living with the slopes and the lifts on our doorstep.

But, it happens ever so often that a jacket get caught, and the child is trailed hanging from the seat up the mountain, rather than getting off.

I am worried.

DH will join them as soon as he has finnished a meeting in town.

I can see them all from my kitchen window. I just want to sit there with coffee and binoculars.

But I cant, I have to clean the house, pack as we are going away tomorrow, bake buns and bake bread as we have ran out, and a banana loaf, as my aunt and her family are coming to visit this afternoon. I have decided on homemade pizza for tea.

You have ski slopes outside your kitchen?

I would sit with the binoculars and then go into a frenzy once you know that DH is with them. You'll get nothing done even if you try before that because you'll be popping back to check every 2 seconds.

I know, it is amazing how I have decided to take the day off and bake (with a view directly onto the slopes) rather than work today (working from home). I cant sit here on my laptop... The phone just rang, unknown number, asking "is this mrs x x?" I nearly shat myself thinking he had broken his neck off the ski-jump.

There is a ski jump.... I told him DO NOT GO ON THE SKI JUMP!!

But he has a 7 year olds selective memory and lack of sense. (he is nearly 7)

Oh the joys of motherhood . He will be fine but your nerves may not be.

I think I want your life, baking buns whilst watching children skiing out of the window
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Sounds idyllic

(I would be the same as well, but he will be having a FAB time)

a jacket gets caught into what????

They look like they are all having fun!

Franca, the ski lift is not one you sit into, it is like an upside down T shape, so a person can sit on either side of the bar in the middle, if that makes sense, and sometims a jacket get caught as they try and get off.

Oh my goodness, you mean the "ancora"!!! Those are evil. They got rid of most of them here in Italy. I hated them!

Yup - the "anchora" - that sounds about right. Terrifying!

But what, actually, could you do about it, even if you saw him catch his jacket and fall? Run out in your slippers?

Yup, that would be the crazy mum running up the hills, with her apron afloat and clasping her pink dotty slippers, as they were too slippery on the snow....

My friend had an elderly lady from Afghanistan visiting, and she took her out to the childrens playing park, with plenty of hills to slide down. She was concerned about getting her shoes wet and snowy, so she took them off and went barefeet sliding down the hill shouting YIIIHHAAA! as she went! (traditional attire an veils flying in the breeze0