Do rabbits hibernate?

Do rabbits hibernate? It's still only January and already we're getting enquiries about whether the Easter Eggstravaganza is on again in 2008

YES

Hope that answers all your questions :-)

OK, seriously. Yes, just like last year it will be a four day event over the long Easter weekend, starting with the Long Good Friday Night Skate on Friday 21st March and ending with Egg & Silliness on Monday 24th. In between those dates we're planning workshops (this year officially sponsored by the ICP), free skate lessons, and of course the Bunny Stroll itself.

And we're going to be offering costumes in advance this year as well, so you can be dressed as rabbit all weekend long if you like. More here as soon as we work that out.

Oh, and in regard to the original question, apparently not

Left at Whitehall and straight on 'til morning

Sounds like "The Real Tinkerbell" had a good time on the Bunny Stroll (link via serpentineroad.com)

Egg & Spoon

Easter Monday saw some very, very hungover bunnies crawl out of their warrens and into the sunshine to partake in the silliest egg and spoon race ever! Not content with the mere stupidity of racing on skates while balancing a Kinder Egg on a wooden spoon, the barmy bunnies had to negotiate slalom cones and chalk circles and long wiggly lines to race around......



The rabbits – of all ages, some on quads and some on in-lines – achieved remarkable feats. Funny bunny Lisa even had an egg that defied gravity. It can't have had anything to do with the bubble gum that mysteriously appeared on her spoon!

After the mayhem had reduced the judges to mild hysteria, we gave up and distributed our final chocolate eggs to the kiddies who made it so much fun to watch.
Huge praise goes out to the little girl who had never ever been out on skates before and managed to make it all the way round our skate obstacle course which absolutely made our day...

Even the BBC came down to watch us in all our silliness so anyone who failed to join the fun on Monday can get a (non-chocolate) flavour here

Dunhoppin

There were a fair few droopy-eared rabbits muttering into their drinks last night. "Wow, did we really do all that?" "Can i go to bed now?" "We're on TV?"

(Yes, the Egg & Spoon race made BBC News)

Feedback is, needless to say, all over the Serpentine Road forum. Photos for the site: we're working on them, but there were certainly lots of people with cameras. If you use flickr, or you could be persuaded to use flickr, upload your images there and tag them "easterskate07" - then they'll show up here

Lineup for Sunday 8th April

Only a day to go now till the start of the weekend and we’re all getting nervous. Thankfully the weather's not looking too bad, we had discussed the possibility of moving the Bunny Stroll to Easter Monday if it was rained off but luckily that’s one less thing to worry about.

Both routes are now finalised – Dan route-checked his Long Good Friday Night Skate last Tuesday and it’s a cracker. It includes The Gherkin, where I ran a skate to last year. Such a beautiful building, although I would still like to know how they clean their windows. Anyway, you can see the whole route on the LFNS site: http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070406

I route-checked most of the Bunny Stroll on Monday night, I was on my own so I did part of it by car as I didn’t want to skate without my knee brace. I’m getting lazy I think. The route brings together old favourites, the view from Waterloo Bridge, parts of Soho including 7 dials, at least one firestation (hello boys!), Parliament Square and a stroll up The Mall towards Buckingham Palace. We’re having half time at Leicester Square, and a short break under The London Eye. PeterC has done me a special logo to go on the back of my marshals vest, which I’m really looking forward to wearing on Sunday.

The best dressed adult and child skaters will be presented with vouchers from Club Blue Room, who are co-sponsoring our event with Prolineskates.com. Saffy and I are judging the entries, along with a couple of the instructors who are doing the free lessons on Saturday afternoon. Having had a peek at some of the costumes already, I think there are going to be some tough deliberations.

The full line-up for Sunday is as follows:-

^ Mad rush at The Vic from 11:30 to 13:45 as most skaters will have left their costume buying till the last minute

^^ 12:00 Jason from Kangoo Jumps will be holding demonstrations and taster sessions on Sunday and Monday, I’ll try to get there early so we can have a go.

^ 12:30 Meet Bren, Dan and Sol at the bike lockup to carry out any last minute decoration of FireBrox, our music bike.

^^ Face painting at the Stroll start point from 13:00 to 13:45 (we’re still trying to recruit volunteers for this activity)

^ 13:00 Get to the start point to give out any outstanding costumes, check the FireBrox has left the bike store and check our radios, costumes and supplies of refreshments are all intact. Collect the music mix from Marty.

^^ 13:40: discussion with the scout and rear marshal, carry out the marshals briefing, chat to the photographers about the route and meeting points, and brief the skaters who’ll be coming on the Stroll and take a few deep breaths before we get the show on the road.

^ 14:00/14:15 Bunny Stroll gets underway

^^ Return to Hyde Park around 16:00 to watch Lisa and her band of quad dancers doing dance demonstrations. Stick around for this, these people are incredibly talented

^ Judge and hand out the prizes for the best dressed skater competition.

^^ We then head to The Victoria, to make last minute preparations for the Party and raffle, which is at 18:30.

Phew, all that looks exciting, don’t forget to check out the Bunny Stroll route at http://www.lfns.co.uk/route.php/20070408 and to check both this and the LGFNS link above for photos we’ve taken of the events, as we usually upload them within a day or so.

Prizes Galore!

As well as a packed programme of events, we’ve secured sponsorship from a number of organisations and individuals. We’ve divided them up according to the day and activity.

As one of the organisers, I’m not allowed to win any of these, but I am very partial to chocolate, so feel free to share some with me!

Bunny Stroll (Sunday) Best dressed Skater, sponsored by Club Blue Room
Adult - £100 CBR voucher
Child - £75 CBR voucher

Raffle, held at The Victoria Pub (Sunday)
1 x £200 voucher (Proline)
1 x £100 vouchers (Proline)
2 x £50 vouchers (Proline)
3 x £25 vouchers (Proline)
5 x t-shirts (Proline)
1 x complete set of 80mm wheels, bearings and spacers. We have 3 to give away. Many thanks to Edmar Gwiazda
1 x Dinner for 2 with wine (The Victoria public house)
1 x Skate Faster Course (4 x 1.5 hours) (LondonSkaters.com)
1 x Bottle of Champagne (InlineSchool.co.uk)

London Skate Patrol Treasure Hunt (Monday), sponsored by Club Blue Room
1st prizes:
age 5-8 £50 voucher @ CBR + Chocolate Eggs
age 9-11 £50 voucher @ CBR + Chocolate Eggs
age 12-15 £50 Voucher @ CBR + Chocolate Eggs
age 16+ £50 Voucher @ CBR + Chocolate Eggs
Chocolate Eggs for 2nd & 3rd place in all age categories. Every entrant get a chocolatey prize.

Beat My Trick (Monday) sponsored by Club Blue Room
1st place - £100 Voucher (CBR) + Chocolate Eggs
2nd Place - Chocolate Eggs
3rd Place - Chocolate Eggs

Egg & Spoon race (Monday), sponsored by Club Blue Room
1st prize £25
2nd & 3rd prizes: Chocolate Eggs

LGFNS

Tonight we go out to check the route for the Long Good Friday Night Skate, and once we've found out whether the roads still exist and all that good stuff we'll put it up on the official web site (www.easterskate.co.uk) and of course on the LFNS site.

Remember, it starts at 7pm from Serpentine Road (where the Stroll usually starts). All hail British Summer Time, it'll still be nice and light by then.