Snow

We have snow! Not just a few tiny flakes that melt before they have even touched the ground but proper thick snow that scrunches under your feet as you walk. Actually today it has frozen hard but yesterday and Thursday T's school was closed and we built snowmen in the garden and threw snowballs at each other. B was less enthusiastic. He ventured out into the garden looked a little bemused as he watched the large flakes fall from the sky, and then went back inside. This is the first time the boys have seen proper thick snow. Last winter I think we had one snowy day, but by midday it had all melted. It reminds me of winters from my childhood when our narrow lane was filled by snowdrifts so deep that cars were completely covered. All the neighbours used to come out with shovels to dig a way out. Schools were closed and we spent entire days sledging, building snowmen and having snowball fights. I am only sorry that we live in such a flat city and have no hills within walking distance to go sledging.