I woke this morning around 7am and promptly went back to sleep. At 8am Ady brought me a cup of tea but I dozed for a while before drinking it and around 830am I started reading my book in bed and decided to stay there til I’d finished it.This took until just after 10am.
In the meantime it started to snow, really heavily and to great excitement from downstairs with regular bulletin updates to me still in bed. Ady and the children went out to play in the garden, built a snowman, made snow angels and introduced the chickens to snow 😆
I finally got up and while Ady got the roast dinner on I found waterproofs, wellies, gloves (none of us had matching pairs but I at least found eight gloves between us :lol:) and coats for those of us who own such things and we set off to the park. Snow is just not something we ever really get here – and certainly not at the huge depth it fell in today. One of the isolated occassions when it snowed in my childhood to such an extent was when my Dad’s cousin, his wife and their dog were staying with us and while neither of my parents would ever have played in the snow the dog still needed walking so we went to the nearby park which I recall being an almost neverending blanket of white. It seemed like the very best place to take Davies and Scarlett to enjoy the snow at just 10 minutes drive away so we dressed up and headed over there. A few other people had the same idea but it really is a massive area so we had a huge space of virgin snow to play in whilst admiring other people’s snowmen efforts across the park – there was one very impressive one standing a good six feet tall :).
We had a fab hour playing in the snow until we got wet and cold. We made snow angels, a snowman, a small snow dalek, what I thought was the start of a snowman:
but turned out to be the place to rest the camera for the selftimer shot 😆
And then the hugest snowball fight between me and Ady with additional ambushes from the children, which had us breathless with effort and helpless with laughter -can’t remember the last time I had so much fun!;)
Home for lunch and a much needed lazy afternoon.
Instead of a chapter of Famous Five D and S asked for a library bookwhich they both really enjoyed and got lots of nice trivia about building materials from which I imagine we’ll be hearing lots about – glass being made of sand being a particular revelation to them although I’m sure I’ve mentioned it before.
Ady and I watched The Man Who Sued God which we both liked. I’m not a big Billy Connolly fan but I do think he’s a good actor. Liked him in Lemony Snicket too.
A lovely weekend really and off we go launching ourselves into another week…
Oh I am so jealous we never get snow like that in the Isle of Man 🙁
I miss Scotland
Comment by leandra — 07 April 2008 @ 5:34 pm
That is the bestest picture of S ever- adorable 🙂
Comment by Heather — 08 April 2008 @ 8:05 am
Oh The Isle of Man had fabulous snow when I was about 8 🙂
Comment by Roslyn — 08 April 2008 @ 10:19 am