Snow times.

                                 IT SNOWED YESTERDAY!!!! by Ruth Lovell

I love snow, it's beautiful and fun and slightly crazy. It snowed last night, so me and my Dad and my Uncle walked from High Beach (/Beech -apparently you can use either) to home. I'd say it was in the dark, but the snow was so bright it wasn't really. It snowed all the way, and it felt so great to be out of the house after ages of sitting in front of a computer trying to revise. We took a slight diversion to help a scout group (on some sort of orienteering in the dark without any leaders or anything, who were going in completely the wrong direction) get back on track, and I totally pushed a car in the snow.

Often times it was about 3 inches or so deep, and we were the first ones there so everything was crisp and clean. ( I made a snow angel, which was mostly still there the next morning although it had been snowed over. It's nice that most people didn't tread on it.) We got back at around 12:15 for hot coffee and fire, which was happily still going. I've managed to drench a lot of trousers because of snow (and one because of really hot tea, but that's irrelevant), but it's pretty cool to sit in front of a fire and see you're trousers steaming away.

We also made most of an igloo. We would have made the other bit too, but the boys quit after doing two rounds (in snow bricks and everything, thanks to Alex!), so it was up to me and my sister to finish the rest.

Even though my Mum came out to help later, we didn't really recover from the heavy loss of builders (as well as the loss of one of our brick mold-boxes) but we did get a lot more done.  The moral of this story is, kneeling and leaning on snow for long periods of time makes your legs hurt.
And then we had upside down pineapple cake and watched Jeeves and Wooster.

The End.

(Sorry if the writing style is really bad today, I'm not really trying.)