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I saw some great snowmen in Dulwich Park, but my favourite memory from today was watching a family in the playground. They had some of those plastic mini shovels (I only know them as Ki-gliss's). They were using them on the slide and because they were using these little "sledges", they were whizzing off the slide and through the snow. Much laughter and screaming ensued - very sweet.

cg Wrote:

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> I saw that one. A foreign guy was taking a picture

> of four adults around it. Maybe the Russians who

> sent us the snow in the first place decided to

> come over and leave us a memento !!


That was us!! All over 30 years old and loving being in the snow!!!

honk Wrote:

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> Igloo on Goose Green was v impressive.

>

> An ED dad screaming at his children 'IRIS!

> JONATHAN! DO NOT GO NEAR THE IGLOO!" was a

> highlight of my day.


And the entrance was carefully boarded up too.


I trust not too many forumites lost in snow drifts. Tomorrow a greater danger, boredom, may begin to show. Perhaps there'll be even more walkers into work. I came across this btw, from Paul Terry, in a uk.transport.london thread today:


"My grandfather, who was station master at Monument, once walked 15 miles to work in one of the

impenetrable smogs of the 1950s - he got up at midnight and left home before 1am, and was only a

little late in opening up the station soon after 6am - I always remember him complaining that he had

to walk slowly because visibility was down to three feet in places."

honk Wrote:

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> Igloo on Goose Green was v impressive.

>

> An ED dad screaming at his children 'IRIS!

> JONATHAN! DO NOT GO NEAR THE IGLOO!" was a

> highlight of my day.


Honk, I am beginning to think you are like a car alarm. Initially you think - Oh, that's something I might need to pay attention to. But then as the same note goes on and on, you realise it's just noise and you wish it would stop.

Moos Wrote:

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> honk Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Igloo on Goose Green was v impressive.

> >

> > An ED dad screaming at his children 'IRIS!

> > JONATHAN! DO NOT GO NEAR THE IGLOO!" was a

> > highlight of my day.

>

> Honk, I am beginning to think you are like a car

> alarm. Initially you think - Oh, that's something

> I might need to pay attention to. But then as the

> same note goes on and on, you realise it's just

> noise and you wish it would stop.



I'm surprised you can hear it over the hum of self-contentedness.

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