LONDON FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE TM
& SUNDAY STROLL TM

From: Week on Wheels <wow /at/ lfns.co.uk>
Subject: [wow] Easter Weekend On Wheels: the four-day free festival
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:00:18 +0000

Welcome to EASTER WEEK ON WHEELS: your Eggsclusive Guide to
our four-day free festival this weekend

* Day By Day guide to events
* What to do in Weather
* Not really a begging letter
* Intercession and cessation

== FRIDAY ==

This is a GOOD FRIDAY, It's GOOD because it's a public holiday
(or vice versa, according to your religious observances) and that
means no rush hour traffic which means we can start an hour earlier.
Which means 17 miles of uninterrupted skating.

The LONG GOOD FRIDAY NIGHT SKATE leaves at SEVEN PM from the eastern
end of Serpentine Road (where the Stroll usually starts). Then we have
a leisurely short loop around town taking in the tourist sights
(Regent Street, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square and Parlliament)
before returning to Hyde Park Corner for 8 to pick up latecomers and
then off again for a rather faster trip out east to Tower Hill and
back via the Eye.

If you've never done an LFNS before, come along at 7pm for the first
bit and see how you get on (but don't expect to do the full 17 miles).
The RED BULL support car will be in attendance at stops. Half time
will be at Spitalfields (Aldgate and Aldgate East nearby), but we also
pass many Central line stations on the way there, so if you're
flagging - bring some money and jump on the tube back to Marble Arch.

                            http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080321


== SATURDAY ==

Saturday afternoon is given over to FREE CLASSES and WORKSHOPS
organised by instructors from the ICP and the BRSF. The Inline
Certification Program trains and certifies inline skate instructors,
and the British Roller Sport Federation have a similar programme
(approved by Sport England) that also encompasses traditional "quad"
skaters. Starts at 1pm, all skaters welcome at whatever skill level -
we'll match you with a group at your pace.

Exact timing and locations are necessarily flexible, but head down to
the Stroll start point (east end of Serpentine Road) and look for a
bunny marshal to find out what's going on where.

                               http://www.easterskate.co.uk/events.php


== SUNDAY ==

Imagine a mobile disco on London streets with 500 people dressed as
the Easter Bunny - or as the Playboy Bunny. A sea of ears bobbing
gently in the spring sunshine.

Hold that picture just a moment. Now imagine that they're *also*
wearing skates ...

On SUNDAY 23RD MARCH at 2PM the EASTER SUNDAY DUNNY STROLL will be
leaving from the eastern end of Serpentine Road for a relaxed 5-7 mile
jaunt around town with tunes from the Firebrox, the LFNS pedal-powered
PA system.

If you don't have a COSTUME, don't worry. Turn up at the VICTORIA pub
(10a Strathearn Place, W2 2NH) from 11:30am onwards where for the
measly sum of FIVE of the BRITON'S POUNDS we will provide you with a
fetching pair of bunny ears (bring AA cells with you and you can even
make them light up) and a white boiler suit. These will NOT be for
sale in the park - please don't just turn up at 2 and expect there to
be costumes available.

                            http://www.easterskate.co.uk/costumes.php
                              http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20080323


Also on Sunday afternoon, amble down to the Beach after the Stroll for
QUAD DISCO & DANCE LESSONS courtesy of Skate Lisa and the quaddies.
Where's the Beach? Western end of Serpentine Road, or just follow
everyone else.

== PARTY LIKE ITS 1900 ==

Once again, we're taking over London's premier apres-skate venue, The
Victoria pub, for our EasterSkate party on Sunday. Head up there from
7pm and hop around to tunes selected by our resident DJs.

There will also be a RAFFLE, with the draw at 9PM. We have hundreds
of pounds of prizes to be snapped up, and there will be bunny girls
selling tickets at the Vic before and during the party.

Raffle tickets are £2.50 each or £10 for 5. All the money raised will
be going towards defraying the year-round expenses of the skates

                               http://www.easterskate.co.uk/party.php

== MONDAY - EGGS MARKS THE SPOT ==

MONDAY is Skate Patrol day. Skate Patrol is a group of volunteers
from the London area, who believe (reasonably enough) that the biggest
challenge in learning how to skate safely is learning how to stop, and
so they run heel-braking clinics on most Sundays and Bank Holiday
Mondays throughout the summer. Monday's their season kick-off and to
mark the occasion they'll be running the Easter Bunny Treasure
Hunt. Novice skaters and children are invited to join in the hunt for
clues around Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens in order to piece
together the final answer and win the Easter treasure.

Children need to be accompanied by an adult. It's free to enter, and
all participants get an eggtastic chocolately prize. It says here.

                           http://www.easterskate.co.uk/treasurehunt.php

The Treasure Hunt is from 2pm but you can register from 1pm when the
Skate Patrol clinic starts up.


== FREE FREE JUMPS ==

Also on Monday afternoon, the LondonSkaters Freestyle Club workshops:
from 2pm they'll be teaching and demonstrating FREEJUMP (it's like
high jump, but without a rope) and from 3pm they'll show you how to
slalom though cones.   

And then. The event it's all been leading up to. As featured last
year on BBC TV, the EGG AND SPOON RACE.

And then. The event it's *really* all been leading up to. We go to
the pub.


== DIRTY WORDS ==

In a family-friendly newsletter like this we can't use the F word,
but we think you know what we mean. Starts with F, inishes with CAST
and contains the letters O R E.

The weather predictions for this weekend have been getting steadily
better over recent days: whereas last weekend the best suggestion for
the bank holiday was to get away from it all by launching a rubber
dinghy from the first floor window, the threat level has dropped from
"collect two of every kind of animal" to "might be a bit damp". But
it might still be a bit damp.

For Friday and Sunday's skates we will make weather calls in the usual
fashion on the LFNS web site. If the SUNDAY STROLL is called off, we
will reschedule for MONDAY - please do still come on Sunday morning to
collect your costume, and please do still come on Sunday evening for
the party. PARRTY. Saturday's and Monday's event calls are likely to
be less formal - check the weather before leaving home if you have a
long journey, because if there's five feet of snow we won't be there.
We'll try to update the Easterskate web site with on/off details, but
we're at the mercy of mobile phones there.

                                        http://www.easterskate.co.uk


== BUNNY MONEY ==

£135.50 a year will buy you the right to watch 5 analogue TV channels
and somewhere in the region of 30 terrestrial digital channels
(dependent on reception).

£14.99 a month will buy you AOL Broadband - 10GB usage allowance and
up to 8Mbps download speed (dependent on your line and location)

£0.00 per eternity will get you free access to the London Friday Night
Skate and Sunday Stroll - up to 96 marshalled street skates a year
(dependent on weather) plus special events like this Easter weekend.

How do we do it for that price? We're all volunteers, which helps,
but we still have outgoings on maintenance and storage for the
Firebrox, First Aid supplies, web hosting bills, and so on, which are
met through monies raised at the Easterskate and from generous
donations by skaters. We're never going to threaten you with "donate
to keep the skates free": on the whole we'd rather you helped the
skate by spreading the word, or by volunteeering to marshal or to lend
a hand with the zillion other tasks we do each week (ask for details).
But if you are, to use the popular expression, "cash rich and time
poor", we won't say no to filthy lucre.

And how do you know we're not spending it all on beer and foreign
holidays? After Easter we'll be launching our Open Books initiative:
all our expenditure and all our income, listed on our web site where
everyone can see.


== THE MYSTERY OF FAITH ==

That's your cut out and keep guide, then. Please pass on our request
for dry weather to your deity of choice, if you have one. If you
don't then don't, but just hope it won't rain anyway.

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