SNOW!!!!!!!!

Its been two years since I last saw snow, three since I last saw snow that actually settled and four or five years since I saw enough snow to actually do something fun with. So when I noticed everything outside was white at around 12:30am on Wednesday 24th of January (I wanted to post this with pictures and I'v only just found the cable to enable me to do so) I was somewhat excited. I then proceded to alert everyone I knew was still awake and text a few people I thought might be interested (the plan being to alert them to the snow but not wake them up if they were asleep) and then head on out into the snow.

We (myself and two of my flat mates) weren't the first people to notice the snow and had to leave my flat in a relatively coutious way in order to avoid getting hit with a number of snowballs. Soon after we were all armed with snowballs and awaiting some friends who were on their way out of their flats. A merry time was had by all as we dodged and ducked low flying snowballs comming from every direction.

girlfriends showed up. Fortunately the girlfriends deceided to join us after awhile but they soonBefore we knew it we wer getting pelted from the other end of the car park we were in by a load of guys from another flat and a war began. We were outnumbered five to seven and then their decided they didn't need us and we found ourselves surrounded. The snow had been starting to get slightly slushy and we were rappidly running out of ammunition when the night staff of our halls of residence came and ordered us out of the car park before any damage was caused to the cars.


I found myself alone as my flat mates and friends headed in to get warm but I wasn't as willing to give up on the snow so soon. I leaft the confines of the car park to find a new patch of snow to begin construction of a snow man. Unfortunately the balls of snow I was slowly building up did contain a reasonable amount of grit, mud and pebbles but beggers can't be choosers. I used some stones and what I think was part of a wing mirror to give him some features (I forgot to give him a mouth!) and a couple of very thin sticks for arms.


I had only just finished him when a group of guys showed up looking to smash him to pieces but I convinced them to leave him be until I had some photoes of him, they even offered to take a photo of me with him (they gave me a rather expensive looking phone to hold while the photo was taken so they couldn't run off with my rather cheap looking camera).

When I woke up the next day practicly all the snow had vanished and there was a van parked where my snowman used to be. All in all it was good night despite the fact I ended up getting to bed around 5am when I needed to get up at 9am for an art lesson/assesment.