Dear Dr Ski

When I recently attended the Sepp Blatter Charity Dinner to raise money for disabused Swiss bank managers and confused tax inspectors, I was delighted to have successfully bid for a days tuition with your good self in the blind auction. Our day on the glacier was an unforgetable experience but something you said has left me somewhat perplexed, I thought the modern ski dispensed with the need to keep the skis together and yet you repeatedly asked me to try to do just that? Have I missed at trick, should I dust off the 210's?

Yours, still in awe
GP

Dear GP

Thank you for your enquiry and your generous donation, 10,000 SF well spent I hope, Sepp assures me that a full 5% will find it's way to a good cause. I know you may have found some of my comments hard to swallow but I am sure you understand that I am far more accustomed to fine tuning the technique of World Cup competitors rather than wrestling an inept beginner's snow plough into a half decent parallel turn. Hey, but you know me, anything for a good cause, no need to change your equipment, when I screamed for the 43rd time 'Try to keep your skis a little closer together' I was referring to the fact that one was cartwheeling dangerously close to Frau Ulrika, 50 metres below you and the other seemed to be protruding from your rear end, apart from that little matter by the end of the session your technique was a joy to behold.

Lying through my teeth

Dr Ski

PS I arranged for the invoices to be sent direct for the helicopter transfer and the rather splendid Champagne dinner Frau Ulrika and I enjoyed at the Baur au Lac. Thx DS