I did my bit for community safety in todays inclement weather (worst snowfall for 30 years), and spread about 4 buckets of grit on the icy paths around our house, the route to the local post box, and near the local library and recycling bins. The public grit bin was about three quarters full afterwards.
One of the local restaurants and the pet shop also spread few shovelfuls about until a chap turned up in a British Gas van and swiped about 3 or 4 sackfuls, virtually emptying the bin in one fell swoop. He mumbled something about his mothers drive. With grit in short supply this got me wondering about how big his mothers drive is, how many grit bins he's visited in the area, and if British Gas know what he's using their van for?
First day back at school for Frodo and Samwise. The teachers decided to take a snow day and tried to close the school for the afternoon. Most parents didn't get the message, and picked up their kids at the usual time. It will definitely be completely shut tomorrow.
Rather than risk taking the car to pick them up, I walked up to the school, with a pair of wellies in a bag for each of them, and we returned via the park.
Introduced Frodo to the avalanche dangers of standing under a snow laden tree, whilst your companions are armed with snowballs!
Returned home to build a mutant snowman in the back garden.
You can see Frodo in the bottom right corner of the above photo demonstrating the effectiveness of snow camouflage.
Also see impworks snowfall 2 - the return of the white stuff
2 comments:
I've seen far worse snow men. Sounds like the kids had fun with the snow.
They had even more fun when they found out that they didn't have to go back to school for 2 days!
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