I really enjoyed that Peter T. thank you
Were you talking about High Park? I use to go there often myself to skate.
Your words reminded me of the time I use to work at the Toronto General Hospital and during my lunch break I would go over to College Park to skate. I met a woman there who was a figure skater. She looked pretty good for my level of skill. We made arrangements to meet once a week at the skating rink where she would teach me to figure skate.
While everyone else sat around the staff cafeteria complaining about this, that and the other thing, I was having a glorious time on the ice.

BB