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Alas, poor snowman.
As you may have heard, we have had some Weather here in the UK. A storm dumped a good six inches of snow on the West Midlands on Sunday. Which, since the whole of the UK goes into a blind panic at the slightest whiff of anything other than "10 degrees C, clouds and a slight breeze", means that the place has basically shut down for the past three days. The road network is an ice rink.
We have been doing our best to make the most of it, as Humuhumu's school has been shut. For instance, we built a snowman.

Keiki and Humuhumu put the finishing touches to their snowman. Snowman has genuine bits of coal for eyes and a carrot nose. He is also sporting a Robinson College [Cambridge] scarf.

And here is snowman two days later. Alas, he is listing hard to starboard.
We have been doing our best to make the most of it, as Humuhumu's school has been shut. For instance, we built a snowman.

Keiki and Humuhumu put the finishing touches to their snowman. Snowman has genuine bits of coal for eyes and a carrot nose. He is also sporting a Robinson College [Cambridge] scarf.

And here is snowman two days later. Alas, he is listing hard to starboard.
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More snow pics to come. You will love Humuhumu's approach to a snowball, I think.
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(when you don't have to drive in it!) ;)
That's a super snowman, those very rare occasions when there was enough snow to attempt one, mine always came out rather lumpy
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And now it's all sleet and slush, ugh.
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It's all clear in London now but the bloke tells me the Midlands are still an ice rink, so that'll be fun to go back to this eve...
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And well done for capturing the moment where every well-constructed snow being resembles more Calvin's snow goons instead.
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I'm always surprised by how incapacitated the UK seems to get - it's not like you never get snow there!
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I suspect some of the incapacity is deliberate. Everyone was definitely aiming for a snow day on the Monday!
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Black ice is the worst. I had a proper comedy fall on it this morning on the way to the train station. I was walking too fast and my feet went right out from under me. :(
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I am not looking forward to inspecting my bruises later...