While the weather is looking surprisingly pleasant out of the window right now, winter is undoubtedly gearing up to stick its soggy hobnail boot into our collective faces; with more and more of my time seemingly spent in the pub, at House of Vans or down Southbank coming to terms with my own personal ledge skating deficiencies. I don’t really want to descend into skateboard writing cliché, but our frankly fucking mental weather patterns are integral enough to how a day’s skating is spent that an article of this kind at some point was pretty much unavoidable. Bollocks to complete negativity though, alongside five winter scenarios to get you running for hibernation here are five reasons to welcome the grim.