I'm now un-chicken enough to...

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...skate outdoors.

I have to be careful! While walking around my village, I wasn't taking any notice of differences in height. As it happens, this is a pretty bumpy village. I ended up going down a hill I didn't realise was a hill, was going too fast, and wasn't quite able to stop cleanly. I wiped out and took a graze to the knee and elbow.

I then proceeded to where I should have skated in the first place, a little tarmac football pitch. It's normally empty, or near enough. Today there were a bunch of kids playing football all over it! Oh well. I'll try again another time. The surface looks decent enough and it's nice and flat for pussies like me who are spoiled on inside skating.