It's that time of year again.

 

 Yes it's the time of year when sane sensible people pay large sums of money to go skiing again.   Why is anybodies guess!

 A ski holiday means paying a fortune for flights, hotels and clothes you can't wear anywhere else, queuing for the chair lift, falling over a lot, and fairly frequently a free helicopter ride in an air ambulance to a crowded hospital with other skiers from your hotel waiting to have their arms and legs turned back the right way around and plastered.

 Now there is a cheaper way.  Come to Wales, find an old coal tip.  Dont worry the national coal board left loads laying around abandoned.  Duct tape a skateboard to each foot and shove yourself off the top.   Then you can experience the excitment, thrill fear and sudden impact for bugger all compared to youe Alpine holiday.

 Now to be fair there is a downside, theres no chair lift for one so you have to walk up to the top (don't worry, chances are you'll only be able to do it once anyway) then theres the fact coal isn't quite as soft as snow to fall on.  But the pluses are many, first the huge saving in cash.  Then theres less of a queue at casualty, you'll be the only one there probably with an arm or leg on the wrong way around.

 Ok casualty will be full, but it's be twits in puffer jackets and jogging bottoms who have broken a nail, or can't remember how to tie their laces, not proper injuries like yours.  Then theres the fame you'll get, skiing on a coal tip, pretty much guaranteed a mention on BBC Wales, and I have got news for you, and your new coal rash tattoo with be the envy of your mates.....  Well come on... What have you got to loose....