While Ali’s snowboarding skills don’t quite match up to the real snow bunnies of the Colorado slopes, she obviously beats them on so many other levels and deservedly gets the title of snow bunny.

On a trip up to the Boat Hotel in Boat of Garten, we spontaneously decided to go snowboarding – me for the first time in 5 or so years and Ali – well – just for the first time.

The peak of Cairngorm was absolutely freezing; -21 C with the wind chill factor, but the snow was the best I’ve seen in Scotland for a long time. Rock on the winter holidays!