Of the Snowmen and the snow

We've had a good week of snowfall and frost. Good fun, of course, but even amateur snowologists know that around the world that not snow is a snow is a snow. Illustrated also by the popular story that Eskimo's have some enormous number of words for snow.

To the continuous children's 'requests'* to make a snowman the reply was that this snow just wasn't good (nor enough) for making a snowman. A few days into this opa and dad painfully crafted a minor snowmanlet, in a temporarily successful attempt to reduce the requests (see photo in blogpost below).

But St Nicholas had one great present in store for us on 'pakjesavond': sticky snow! Suitable for rolling enormous balls, the essential raw material for a snowman!

And, lo and behold, our snowman turns out to be a socceroo fan!

* think: "are we there yet?"