Snowmen

[aunty_marion]

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[sabethea]

Our Very Small Snowman was too small to have a carrot nose. Mouse was somewhat unimpressed by this and felt that it was therefore inauthentic. (Thankfully - for one never knows with Mouse - he did not actually phrase it that way!)

[shiv5468]

Proper snowmen!

[vivichick]

your icon wins the internet

[shiv5468]

Thank you. He is nice

[vivichick]

Yeah... that is quite possibly the most adorable thing ever.

[aunty_marion]

I'm glad I got the picture when I did, as this morning (er, it's actually quarter to 12!) the smaller one has slumped out of view, and the larger one is definitely getting shorter!

[islandsmoke]

The scarves will survive, surely? Funny, how when it snows, so many of us want to run out and make something with it. I wonder when and where the custom of building snowmen started?

[aunty_marion]

Well, as of a couple of hours ago (before I went in the bath), though both of them had shrunk rather a lot, the scarves still seemed to be there... :-}

[aunty_marion]

Ah, the serendipity of things! Today's Times has, as its 'Weather Eye' column, the History of Snowmen! Apparently the earliest known illustration of a snowman is in an illuminated manuscript dated 1380 (now in the Royal Library at The Hague). It says, though, that "the origins of snowmen are lost in antiquity."