Don´t try this at home

This week Sunday´s post (a.k.a yesterday´s post) had to be delayed due to some inconvenience.
Specifically, due to the consequences of a little accident I had on Saturday morning. Before you go all worried about me, I must reassert it was actually a minor event, although it could have been quite serious under the circumstances, which I will explain to you in a moment.

Well, first of all I should clarify this very event had nothing to do with my own clumsiness. I have told you about it repeteadly, so you know recognizing my lack of ability is not an issue. In this ocassion, the direct cause of misfortune was other people´s behaviour. Now I will put it on record.

On Saturday morning, The Gentle One and I headed to Cismigiu Park, a beautiful green area in the town centre whose main lake gets frozen at this time of the year.

For some reason, we thought ice skating was the perfect plan for a chilly January weekend and Cismigiu looked like the perfect option.

Generally, we don´t enjoy big crowded places that much, and as Saturday´s morning was a foggy one, we though most people would just postpone their visit to the ice ring.

We were quite wrong.

As soon as we got there, we found the place considerably crowded with mums and dads teaching their kids how to skate. That was fine to us, as we assumed they would be skating slow and safe. I mean, you don´t risk that much when you are with your kindergarden kid, right?

Wrong again.

Outfit rundown: coat - Primark (previously featured here) / beret - H&M (Divided) / scarf - Hymalayan Accents / tights & socks - Calzedonia.

 After aking these pictures I started peacefully skating around the circle.

Most families would slowly skate around it too, and many other grown-ups fasted a bit more around the circle central point (which by the way is totally safe, as the lake is not deep and even if the ice cracks it is impossible for you to drown: the water woud just cover your knees). The thing is, everybody was having fun on a calm and tidy way until then.

I was skating around the grown ups area when suddenly and coming from nowhere, I saw this couple carrying their baby child on the wrong side of the ring: they were skating against the people stream! As you may imagine, that´s against the safety rules.

Unfortunately for me, I saw them when I was too close to them.

So the options were crashing into them (AND their baby) or trying a last-minute sidestep.

So a sidestep it was.

I am quite sure you can conclude the results by yourselves.

I totally overbalanced and fell down my back, hitting my head on the ice in the process.

After the crash, I needed help to get up again and had to be examined by the local emergency station staff. I am glad to say it was not serious.

Nevertheless, I´ve been in the need of painkillers since then.

My back hurts and I´ve got a good size lump on the head, so an apparently unhurtful walk and a bunch of skating outfit pictures finished on a grumpy Violette.

Next time I feel like skating, I think I will just go midnight, or something.

So tell me darlings, how was your weekend?