Life, Loves, and Lipstick

As I posted about previously,  I'm currently learning to skateboard !  It's been about a month now since I first ventured into the land of wheels on a bit of wood, and along with my other half we've discovered there's a fair few parks round this way.  So, here's the good the bad and the ugly of my local parks... (Please forgive me that I don't know the right terms for things yet! I'm still learning) I learnt pretty early on that I like concrete ones.  Smoother, and brighter so just look nicer! Unfortunately Belper's is bottom of the list.  Not only is the park itself just a small and naff metal one, it's also generally in a bit of a state so not a nice environment to skate in.  As a beginner, there's nothing there for me really. the thought of slipping on the metal seems scary and slippy so I've not got interest in attempting to go up or down anything there. The ground is tarmac I think, not the smoothest, and it only covers a small area comp...

It was Dan's birthday a few weeks ago, and given lockdown we had some limitations on where we could do. He'd been getting back into his skateboarding again recently so I sought out some cool looking outdoor skate parks locally and we went to a couple. While at the second I said, 'can I have a go, just see if I can move on it?'  *puts one foot on* woaaah that's unstable *puts other foot on very reluctantly and clings on to his shoulders* Yeah no way was I moving on that thing. So much scarier than I even thought. I actually had a skateboard as a kid. My older cousin had one, I remember when we were round at his he'd use it as the 'counter' when we were playing shop. Anyway, I asked for a skateboard then. I got a yellow one with a skate on the bottom. I don't recall every trying to actually learn to skate but it was fun to sit on and roll down our drive! Fast forward about 25 years later and I'm apparently learning to skate. A few days after Dan...