Do a cartwheel, sucessfully

had a spare moment and a nice patch of lawn at hand, so i thought I’d do my annual cartwheel (its a good way to gauge the rate of one’s inevitable decline). Did it, but split my sexy pants! They were getting a bit threadbare and were on their way out anyway, but still, they had been such a good friend.. Felt sad, until I get a new pair of sexy pants the next day (I was on holiday at the time and didn’t have spare pants. Couldn’t go around with my bum hanging out, even if I was on holiday) hooray!

I can execute a fairly passable cartwheel (though its a horrible sign of encroaching old age that I have to think carefully about it before I do one and the hammies hurt afterwards) but I used to be able to do a nice roundoff at the end – where both feet hit the ground at the same time.You sort of have to twist around 90 degrees while you’re going over, and kind of spring off your hands a bit. Not very confident about mastering this, but its not a hugely important goal, anyway…