Ian Smith

Do you know what you need to try skiing for the first time?

All of the gear.

You need all the gear.

The gear is a requirement of the slope.

They won't let you onto the ski slope if you don't have all of the gear on.

And if all the gear, no idea, is the worst you can be, does that mean the best you can be is none of the gear, all of the ideas?

You're going down the slope on your regular shoes like that, like, hey, don't need any of that stuff.

This isn't even the thing that annoyed me most.

And this shows you how middle class I'm getting.

This is how middle class my problems are.

I never dreamt I'd be able to have a problem as pathetically middle class as this.

This was my big problem in January last year.

I'd come back from skiing to discover that I'd left my AirPods in the chalet.

Oh, no.

My AirPods in the chalet.

Oh, what next?

My cravat still in the villa.

Oh, I can't read tonight.

My monocle is in the chateau.

So I had to get my AirPod sent back to me in a package, but it also come with this postcard.