Our Snowman

Well today my brother sent me a text with a picture of a snowman HE built yesterday … actually it wasn’t a snowMAN at all … it was a snow bunny rabbit (I’ll add up the picture later on), my brother and his other half love rabbits so that got me thinking.

I got the kids all dressed up and nice and snug and warm, you can imagine that was like a military operation as there’s four of them aged between 16 months and nearly 12.

Out we went and guess what we were going to build … you guessed it a snow parrot, an african grey parrot to be exact would you believe!! Here’s how the effort turned out after much sculpting and remoulding and bits falling off (particularly that damn beak):

Secret to a good snow parrot is to build a solid foundation

And to get everyone to help babies and toddlers included

Pat it down REALLY well

Add more snow where neccesary

Get all animals involved with the process even the cat (Gizmo)

Ta da ... you have the finished product

I did most of the work Mummy!!

You have one proud african grey snow parrot owner!!

Rick was really impressed when we showed him our handy work, he was stuck inside working on the computer, he said it was “too cold outside for all that jazz”, but I know he was just jealous!!

Since these pictures it’s snowed ALL DAY LONG and it’s looking even bleaker out there … I thought I may make it into the office tomorrow but in all honesty being a motorbike commuter not even I’m mad enough to go and ride in that!!

My sympathies go out to those of you that struggled into the office today and have to deal with public transport failures, it seems the country can’t cope with a little bit of rain let alone hazardous conditions like we’re seeing today.