The Slippery Slopes
A hilarious story of a novice's adventures
    in alpine skiing
In England, the lack of available skiing venues makes for innovation.  

I had learned to ski on a “Dry” ski slope which is basically coconut matting
laid on the ground on a small hill.  

I was definitely not a natural skier like Graham and had struggled mightily to
master the snow plough and the turn across the slope to stop.  But I was
game for most things and so I found myself on rented skis at the bottom of
the bunny slope in a village called Souze D’Oux in the Italian Dolomites.
And so begins a tale of woe that leaves the listener with sides aching from laughter at the antics of this novice
skier when confronted with the might of the Italian Dolomite mountains and a less than sympathetic and vastly
more talented partner.

For a light hearted, good, honest, funny speech - this one cannot be beat!!