Woho! That's all very nice mr. Hogmaster. But were we not a little bit fooled by 'flexible ice' in this .
Ice is flexible , always , meaning it bends. That's why you can skate on ice that officially is too thin to go on when you keep your speed up. It moves like a wave.(scary!)
But what are called tiddledies as I understand from the citations are chunks of floating ice which in themselves are not flexible but thicker chunks of broken ice. I could be wrong about this but we used to jump those as kids untill we were found out and forbidden.If you had put the chunks of floating ice only, the guess would have been a lot easier I think. Not that it was no fun. It was.
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