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This is just for a laugh. The snowman is just round the corner from us and will feature in a future town calendar. The other two were taken yesterday morning, the third time we've dug out this week. This is our regular winter social activity and we quite enjoy it. We were perhaps a bit over-optimistic in putting the bins out though...
Thanks for looking,
Moira
| Brand: | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera: | Nikon D90  Check out Nikon Nation! |
| Lens: | 16.0-85.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 |
| Recording media: | RAW (digital) |
| Date Taken: | 22 Jan 2013 - 2:04 PM |
| Focal Length: | 16mm |
| Lens Max Aperture: | f/3.5 |
| Aperture: | f/5.6 |
| Shutter Speed: | 1/640sec |
| Exposure Comp: | +1/3 |
| ISO: | 400 |
| Exposure Mode: | Shutter speed priority AE |
| Metering Mode: | Multi-segment |
| Flash: | No Flash |
| White Balance: | As Shot |
| Title: | Meet the neighbours |
| Username: | 
mrswoolybill |
| Uploaded: | 24 Jan 2013 - 7:18 AM |
| Tags: | Community photography, Deep and crisp and even, Humour / fun, Photo journalism, Snow |
| Votes: | 55 |
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What we get is pretty paltry compared with Scandinavia - it always amuses me how unprepared and shocked some people are even Up North. We're quite high up, and have been getting around 20-25 cm a day. This typically happens several times a winter and locals cope with it, but every time the County Council bleats on about 'exceptional conditions that normally occur no more than once a decade...'
And then London gets a shower and the whole country grinds to a halt...
Cheers folks. We are in school today so it's an early start and very little time for pleasure.
Moira
I was conducting a four-hour exam supervision and missed all the "fun" 
A bit harsh on Londoners, Moira, it's the people who live outside that have the problems and the routes into London from the Home Counties. 
Dave
Gosh what a lot of snow! Love That snowman, the children must have enjoyed building it and V2/3 shows a nice neighbourly connection - a good job done by the snow clearers and by you for the capture
Quote: I can remember the winter of '63 
Me too, it was wonderful, but we still weren't allowed indoors at break and lunchtime at my school!
Nice series but the jolly chap in V1 makes that my favourite.
your snowman looks so hopeful
Little does he realise his fate....
Thanks everyone, we are home on a brief visit (and Bill is clearing the drive again... )
Quote: your snowman looks so hopeful
Quote: I quite like the angle and composition.
Thanks in particular to people who have noticed the angle, I tried several angles and compositions and this was the most optimistic-looking.
Moira
Oh and yes, it's real coal, but none of these houses has a chimney so goodness knows where it came from.
I spotted the snowman in the morning, and went back after lunch to ask if I could photograph it. The family had just refurbished the smile because of a further fall of snow.
Moira
Golly, you've certainly got plenty of snow up there, Moira! Love V1, it would be a great Silly Sunday upload
Trev 
That snowman must've had one helluva Christmas lunch. He looks completely stuffed and still has that post-Christmas-lunch stoned-out-out-of-his-gourd expression on his face.
Lovely shots, Moira, and that looks like a lot of snow! Well I would think so, wouldn't I
Andrew
No snow in our parts this year, but we had snow two years ago and it actually stayed on the ground for a day - seems children as well as grown-ups were out making snow men.
This one is a particularly happy one
Anne
A smashing Winter trio Moira, V1 being the Star, but I guess to you, it's just another Man who would melt in your Arms
John
I am particularly taken with V2 which shows the typical British workman leaning on his (snow) shovel. Next stop for him must be the motorway counter-flow. But he'll need another type of shovel.
Malc
And a great laugh it gets from me Moira, I wonder where the carrot is now?
Dougie
Lovely snowman Moira he did make me chuckle . We too have a good neighbourhood. Found another bag of logs by my back door last night ! By you have had some snow. I see the price of snow shovells has gone up to £ 12 at Tesco & all we've had is torrential rain . Brightened up this morning xx MD
He's smiling up at the front window, where the children can see him.
I walked past the house this morning - he is just a pile of slush now...
What a jolly looking snowman Moira, this one made me smile. I did not see too many good snowmen locally this year unfortunately
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