The big freeze continues here in the UK and at one of my local golf courses, the enterprising owner has switched to providing ski and snowboarding facilities. The Cold Ashby Golf Club is ideally situated on rolling hills near the Northamptonshire village.
Together with my friend Bob we visited the slopes for a spot of photography. Fifteen pounds for a session and a temporary ski lift to save the slug back up the hill-except for me and Bob of course!
The snowboarders had built a ramp for take offs and attacked it with gusto-resulting in a few less than soft landings.

Apparently at one point before our arrival a hare had run across in front of the skiers. Wish we'd seen that, but a buzzard did give an impromptu flypast whilst out looking for lunch. Newspapers are getting a bit sick of the constant deluge of snow photos coming their way now-the novelty has worn off. So fingers crossed some of our work will get published, but if not it was an interesting experience to photograph a ski 'resort' in the 'Northamptonshire Alps'.