Snow Joke

10-01-2010

It started to snow again last night, real heavy snow. Nice snow. Snow that when it fell to the ground wasn't just white and nasty and waiting to kill you but was powder like. You could kick it a little and the snow would float once more.

A winter wonderland so to speak.

Of course being the mature and responsible man of twenty seven that I am I made the girlfriend get her coat and gloves and off out to play in the snow we went.

Over the course of the night it had been snowing heavy, then light, then blizzard like. All round good snow fun. While we were out the snow was fairly light so it wasn't too bad to have fun in. We decided to beat the kids to the punch and made the first snowman of the new snow.

He was glorious, complete with carrot nose, scarf, hat. It was brilliance.

Brought the camera along and took some snaps of the road as well. Got some real nice ones, a few that are even worthy of being printed and framed if the mood took.

Then it was back indoors and off to bed. As I went asleep I heard people out on the road on the way home from the pub. Women and men all having some fun in the snow. A woman shouted at one point "Leave the snowman alone."

This was the last thing I heard before going to the land of nod.

I woke up this morning to find out the full horror of that statement. They had killed our snowman. His arms and nose are left in place but the snowy body that once was his had been thrown against a lamp post.

Is nothing sacred in this world I ask you.

Just have to go and pick on some smaller kids today as they make snowmen and steal their hard work.

Better that they learn that lesson now than years later from somebody worse than me.

In other news apparently my favourite gobshite in government has returned from his holidays. Fair play to him I say, it only took him seven days to get back and deal with something that he was meant to be dealing with seven days ago. He's got my vote next election.

Blue_jester