Bringing the community together, that's what.
Was awoken by my girlfriends kids this morning (at ay em ridiculous) with the hushed glee that there was snow everywhere. And yep - a picture perfect scene of white frosting that clung to the trees and virginated everything in sight (only previously seen in movies). So we get bundled up to tackle the cold (the secret is in the layers) and we go out to build snowmen (the snow was too light - so didn't stick well) have snowball fights and sledding up and down the roads.
And so the families in the houses up and down the road slowly emerged in a colourful display of knitware, and enjoyed the shared occasion. Not since the Queens Coronation anniversary have so much of the community shared the community spirit. Snowball wars settled age old arguements about fence size and old and young bonded together as they never will again.
Aaaah. Bless.
So the Island was snowed in again. But this time it was a weekend and so people didn't need that excuse to stay off work - instead, for a scant few hours, we all pelted each other with snow and laughed it off afterwards.
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