HAPPY SNOWDAYS !

I woke up this morning and the world had become beautiful.   Snow,  lots of fluffy white snow was silently falling down.  Not nasty wet snow, but drier fat flakes that look just like the Angels were having a pillow fight !  It lay settling on the ground until the sun shone through the clouds and it melted and dried up.  But it was so lovely while it lasted.   What is it that drives a middle aged woman to gaze out of her window like a fascinated child  waiting till the snow is deep enough to go out and build a snowman ?

   Yesterday, whilst watching a news report on the weather situation in the NE of England, the commentator made a passing remark about the disruption to schools, saying many had closed for the time being, but not all, in fact, one school in County Durham had actually suspended some pupils for throwing snowballs !   Ludicrous !

That`s when I was transported back to my childhood when everyone threw snowballs , going to school, during school and coming home again.  In fact, the bigger the snowballs the better.  We all laughed so much it hurt and that was the very best of times.  We even used to try to build snowmen but the were never very good so we would knock them down and throw the pieces of frozen snow all around.  NOT the sort of thing children are permitted to do in these day of political correctness.  Cruelty to snowmen I think they would call it.  We even used to make those giant snowballs by rolling one along the ground as it got bigger and bigger until it became too heavy to move.  Another thing we did which wouldn`t be allowed now ( I don`t blame them here though ! ) was making slides on the surface of the school playground.  They were lethal.  One child would start of by sliding on the ice , followed by another and then another until the slide was just like a sheet of glass.  I never got hurt and don`t remember anyone else doing so, but I`m sure they did  !   This would last until we went into school and then the caretaker would come out and destroy are carefully prepared slide by sprinkling sand and salt on it.  Nobody liked that caretaker in winter!