Ice suppose it seemed a good idea at the time!

1100 hours

The ice rink is slowly being dismantled just as some of the first real snow of the season looks like arriving.
Doubtless it will be acclaimed as a great success, but we feel that it falls into the "tries hard, could do better" category.
We saw little evidence that it was especially popular.
We're sure that it wasn't as big as was claimed - and it certainly wasn't fifty feet by fifty feet ... being a rather strange shape that must have proved inhibiting for anyone trying to use it as a skating rink is intended.
It was definitely in the wrong place, a decision that we're told cost us a continental Christmas Market, which is something we feel that far more townsfolk would have welcomed.
The only thing that gave it an air of arctic realism was the adjacent tatty cluster of huts and sheds resembling Captain's Scott's final polar encampment.
If it returns next year, it must be after a lot more thought.
But hang on .... why not just leave it be, fill it with water in the summer and call it a town centre swimming pool.
After all it did resemble a bath rather more than an ice rink!

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