It’s just before Christmas 2003, Somerset House has installed an ice rink in the courtyard and Peter Stanford is learning his limitations with the silver blades
It was a good few years since I’d been ice-skating, but when the invitation came in the run-up to Christmas 2003 to attend the evening inauguration of the rink in the courtyard at Somerset House, I was pretty sure it would all come flooding back. Children were welcome, it said, so I took my seven-year-old son along. Because I didn’t want to keep him up late, I booked into the first batch of skaters as did, it turned out, several celebrities, also bringing children, who were lined up for the cameras.
I pulled myself up using this ice-rink Samaritan’s arms, shoulders and even donkey jacket like a climbing wall
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