These steps were cleared off by me and this is what fell over night onto the pre-existing 6 inches.
If this keeps up then I will have to build an army of snowmen like I did when I was young - the story is chronicled by Yellow Monster in A Tale of Snowmen I and II.
This had been my plan with the memories of it ending up in the local papers and things but unfortunatly Dad and Jean saw to it that my snow women was knocked down by a bombardment of snowballs. I also had to cancel the meeting that I had had to cancel with the last lot of snow!
More snow and so bored of building snowmen from our sojourn in Highgate me and Jean decided to build a snow woman! But first some pics of the buildings:
To get the snow for the snow-woman and for saftys sake Dad and Jean set about clearing the steps up to the lawn.
You can tell they worked really hard! We filled one of our fermentation buckets with snow - Jean had a plastic mixing bowl to put her snow in though she mantianed it was a wiggly pets bath - poor things!
We pack the snow down in the bucket and used it as a sort of mould for the body - we did this twice and stacked them on top of each other - I then proceeded to make it safe before Jean was allowed near it!
Ok well it wasn't actually very good as its nose kept coming off and half the face came away at one point leaving it rather flate headed! I found that after a while my gloves became wet and kept sticking to the snow I was trying to sculpt.
Jean liked it though and we thought we'd make a whole clan of snowmen! Once that was finished we went inside for hot chocolate and then Jean went hunting Wiggly Pets - we had seen their tracks in the snow earlier on!
Poor Mini got herself stuck in the Stable as she refused to walk on the snow - she just kept mewing pathetically but was in a position where I couldn't actually pick her up to bring her in - I had turffed her last night and it snowed whilst we slept so she was very conserned. Finially she felt like braving the wet white stuff.
Jean got a bit over tired with the days exertions and fell asleep before I'd even gotten her snow boots off of her!
We are under snow here and with the van at least the roads are impassable so we are stuck!
I will probably take quadzillions of photos whilst this lot lasts so you have been warned. Turned out Barbara managed to crash her car (not badly) whilst we were away which isn't good 🙁 And we have had to cancel scouts which is sad too. The school is also apparently closed.
Getting home last night was not fun - we almost couldn't get the van down into the valley - the road across the common ways inch thick compacted ice with snow on top and trecherous.
It off course started snowing on our way home - we had waited to see if we would be ok going home.
Conditions rapidly deteriated.
Once it got really bad I couldn't take pics as the light levels were simply too low.
It snowed again here in Highgate so me and Jean decided we would build a third snow man so that we had a snow family - this time I rolled a ball that was bigger than Jean - it was hard work and I had difficulty shifting the thing into position - it is also very lumpy and dirty with a scary bits of stone face but Jean seemed to think it was great.
The other issue was that though there has been more snow her snowmen from yesturday had somewhat drooped, their heads lolling alarmingly.
Jean, Snow, Work | sarah | 
Sat 7th Feb 2009 1:12 pm | 
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