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We moved into a new office building a few months ago. And the toilets remind me of the ones at the Eurotunnel terminal building. Must be the panelling, sink/top operation or something.
Aaaand, as we drive to skiing from MK I nearly always go for a wee there. Aaaand, it feels like you are genuinely on your way because you've survived the car packing and M25. Holiday mode is engaged.
We do use the tunnel for other holidays sometimes but mostly it's to go skiing.
So anyway when I go to the toilets at work it makes me think of skiing! What makes you think or reminds you think of going skiing?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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opening my garage door?
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Airport premier inns make me think of skiing  as typically the flight out is at 6.00 on a Saturday morning so we always stay over the night before
As a side point.. I love this time of year. It’s a season long build up/getting body in shape/ longer dark nights. Love it! All points to skiing soon!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Hearing pieces of music that were in the charts during specific ski trips.
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Anytime I make Tartiflette
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| opening my garage door? |
More explanation needed...
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| rjs wrote: |
| Hearing pieces of music that were in the charts during specific ski trips. |
Interesting - any particular tunes?
I often listened to the French version of Chaleur Humaine by Christine and the Queens late in the evening when skiing. We ski in France so the French lingo plus relaxing nature of the music I love. So that reminds me of skiing.
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When it starts getting cold and there’s the smell of engine fumes in the air… weird perhaps but definitely makes me think of skiing!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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@abricotine, good shout
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Layne wrote: |
| rjs wrote: |
| Hearing pieces of music that were in the charts during specific ski trips. |
Interesting - any particular tunes?
I often listened to the French version of Chaleur Humaine by Christine and the Queens late in the evening when skiing. We ski in France so the French lingo plus relaxing nature of the music I love. So that reminds me of skiing. |
That track is one, I usually listen to the local French radio station when servicing skis each night. I also have the French CD.
Joan Osborne - One of Us: A trip to Utah, was on the car radio each morning during the drive up Little Cottonwood Canyon.
No Doubt - Don't Speak: A trip to Courchevel then Les Arcs, it was often on the radio being played over the stade loudspeakers.
When I started skiing in the Espace Diamant, the head of the ESF was a Johnny Hallyday fan and would often play it on the stade.
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You know it makes sense.
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The tense wait for PSB buttons at this time of year. Checking Snowheads every 30 minutes.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Original Chapstick lip balm
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Poster: A snowHead
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Remember the name- Fort Minor, blasting on the deck of Chalet Chinal Donat, Orelle one fine sunny afternoon
One day like this - Elbow, effortless soft bumps one day in Colorado
New rose - The Damned, absolutely pinning it to make last lift
Single ladies - Beyonce, highly entertained in a bubble in Alpe D'Huez by a little French girl doing the whole song and dance routine for her mum
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Sound of people walking on steel grid or metal stairs.
Every autumn when you first get that sharp tang on the air of cold.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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Seeing the first Xmas tat in the shops and thinking hah I'll avoid that crap and be skiing by then.
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Waxing my board. Which reminds me I need to go and scrape it.
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Custard-thick hot chocolate.
Huge bull silhouettes at the side of Spanish motorways (our route to Andorra)
Horse meat steak; when The Lads went skiing in France but didn’t speak French, and one steak on the menu was was good as any other. “Tastes a bit funny…”
Most things Canadian.
Sheryl Crow “All I wanna do (is have some fun)”. Katrina and the Waves “Walking on Sunshine”. Whigfield “Saturday night”.
More soon…
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Going to Clarks outlet village in Street to get some new kit. Smaller size this year as I've lost a lot of weight 
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Rotisserie chicken, my son seems to have it for lunch every day we go skiing
A strong smell of pine trees in the sun brings back easter ski trips
+1 for the cold day petrol smell
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Take me out by Franz Ferdinand - was the absolute most played song by apres bands in Meribel in my first season
Suspicious Minds (Elvis version) - there was a Finnish guy, Mikko, who played really good solo guitar sets at apres in the Meribel centre pubs and again later in the evening at Pizza Express above Dicks T Bar. I used to see him play 2-3 times a week one way or another and he finished every single set with it. It's a great singalong song when you've had a few and I was often as smashed as he was by the time he finished his evening sets because Pizza Express ran a 10-11pm happy hour at €2.50/pint...
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Any ZZT track associated with old Greg Stump ski movies ..... especially Seal or Frankie Goes to Hollywood.....
Man.... I am so OLD!!
I also leave the door of our small spare room open a bit so I can catch a glimpse of my skis everytime I go up and down the stairs......
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Checking into the Novotel in Budapest a couple of years ago and it smelt exactly the same as Reims Tinqueux. There is clearly an air freshner used in Novotels europe wide but we tend to mainly use them on the way to skiing.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| FoofyNoo wrote: |
| ... I also leave the door of our small spare room open a bit so I can catch a glimpse of my skis everytime I go up and down the stairs...... |
Oh. Some people have houses which don't have snowboards in every room. Interesting 
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Living next door to Alice, Alice, who the fcuk is Alice - from Sölden
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You know it makes sense.
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Also looking into the eyes of my wonderful wife whom I met in Val d’Isère
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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I have an Austrian neighbour, about my age.
Every time he drinks a tad more than usual I hear him blasting Helene Fischer, same concert.
The one with Atemlos durch die Nacht  which immediately takes me to Tyrol.
It makes me smile and eagerly wait for December.
An excellent singer with an exquisite dressing code BTW
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Poster: A snowHead
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The smell of melting cheese or wax or both.
My phones picture app.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Preparing skis for snow instead of plastic. Cantering through the woods on my pony.....
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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If you're thinking of skiing while having a slash, you got issues.
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The 'icy' smell in the frozen food section in the supermarket.
Digging out a Buff to wear on chilly mornings in work.
The 'chorus' in any pub when Sweet Caroline is played... "Wo-ah! Ah! Ah!"
Stiegl lager on tap in my local.
Finding a piste map in a jacket pocket (and a lift pass card in the arm pocket!).
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Chopping wood and getting the log burner on
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| rickboden wrote: |
| Also looking into the eyes of my wonderful wife whom I met in Val d’Isère |
I hope her name's not Alice
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When its still and misty and all sound is deadened, especially when in a pine forest
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blackbirds chirping, always reminds me of going up a chairlift in a quiet wooded area and hearing them. ( usually the spring trip)
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Every time I take my false teeth out - caused by rugby and the result of a stack in Alpe D'Huez when a pole hit me in the face.
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When it's frosty outside first thing in the morning. Smells like skiing, specifically first thing in the morning when you leave the apartment for the first time that day. There's no actual smell that I can describe.
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