But they haven't put their mittens on

[venta]

Pottering around in the snow yesterday, I observed a number of snowmen (and one snowwoman, and one ten-foot-tall snowbehemoth, and a rather lovely snowdog). Almost all were built to the crazy three-ball snowperson pattern. When I were a lad child, snowmen were made out of two balls of snow.

When did this madness involving an abdomen come in? Am I right to blame it largely on Calvin? That's Calvin of "and Hobbes" fame, not the guy who founded Calvinism, who probably thought playing the snow was far too frivolous.

I also note that, in the absence of coal being readily available, the go-to objects for snow-eyes are plastic supermarket milk bottle tops. Mostly semi-skimmed, though I did see one wall-eyed snowman who was full-fat on his left-hand side. Carrots are still big news in the snow-nose world.

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[leathellin.livejournal.com]

Kew yesterday had a ridiculous number of half finished two and three ball snowmen , a few finished ones, a snow sprite emerging from a hole in a tree and a snow person sat on a bench.
I have photos but not with me in the office :-)

[venta.livejournal.com]

Damn. We nearly went to Kew yesterday to play in the snow, but in the end opted for being staggeringly grown up and boring and doing some (rather overdue) cleaning instead.