Snow Day

On Monday the snow stopped everything. Most schools in the area were closed, the rail service limited. It was fun seeing adults and children alike having snowball fights, making snowmen and slipping on the icing ground. Walking down the street I looked around and it all looked so pretty, white and clean, I could not help but smile. I realised that even though Id seen snow in England before this was the first time it had settled for the whole day and I could finally make a snowman. Now this is a very exciting thing for me, as a child growing up in South Africa I`d seen Christmas cards with snow, television depicting fun in the snow. Inka wanted to go outside straight away and look. Her first remark on the snow was "Oh Nooo, messy...wipe please". We made a snowman, Kamran helped as he rolled the biggest ball. I could only manage the snowman's head. Andy kept on laughing at my rolling technique. Inka was amused and watched us, she wanted to add stones for the snowman`s mouth but her gloves are a little big so she found picking them up hard and was frustrated. Over the last few days shes been very concerned about the melting snowman and wanted to check on him every few hours.