Tuesday 27th September 2016 - Free Silent Ice Skating Festival Festival

What the? Yes it is free. Yes it is a temporary outdoor ice skating rink but the thought of combining a silent disco using head phones and skating with 44 other inexperienced ice skaters - a lot of them still using "seals" " penguins" or "bobbies" as we call them to aid them as well as skating in an ever increasing puddle of water is not my idea of fun or exactly safe although it is stated that only 45 people are allowed on the ice at one time. I have already seen and heard a daughter with skates and ear phones on hardly able to skate yell out to her mother next to her "I can't hear you!" To add to the "atmosphere" it is dark and windy. Skaters are now starting to karaoke to the music from their ear phones whilst skating around and around the rather small ice rink and how about texting on their smart phones whilst skating around the ice rink to add to all the other activity -  I can see an accident or two waiting to happen!

I'll give this festival festival a miss and go for a proper skate at Macquarie on a proper sized ice rink!