Thursday, 11 February 2010

Let it snow!

Two weekends ago (the weekend of the massive pasty/sausage roll cook-a-thon - all of which, I might add, we devoured in four days. FOUR DAYS. We ate them for Breakfast, lunch and tea. Ugh. I’m not proud of myself and have removed “bakery proprietor” from my list of future jobs as I’d die from clotted arteries after 2 weeks as I am like a Labrador, I do not have a mechanism that tells me I am full – at least not where baked goods are concerned. Awful.)

Anyway, ahem, sorry.

That Sunday morning, M got up, had a shower and then I could hear him RUNNING around the apartment, I was thinking, WTF?!?! Then he started YELLING “Get up! Get up! It’s snowing!!”

Now, for those of you who are either England/Scotland/Canada/Northern Europe born and bread or currently residing there, snow probably = meh.
But for two little ranga Aussies shacking up in Cannes on the Cote D’Azur, snow is very thrilling! And it bucketed down for several hours, much to our excitement.

Then the sun came out and it all melted away.


What we woke up to





Everything looks so pretty!


And then two hours later, back to normal!




All the French exclaimed that this was highly unusual; it NEVER snows like that in Cannes. EVER.

Well, they lie.

'cause today it snowed even more! Totally totally crazy! And pretty. So long as you don’t have to drive in it as the motorways all shut and it was traffic chaos on the road out the front of our apartment. So I just sat back, drank a few cups of tea, chatted to my grandma on the phone and watched the snow fall. Blissful.



Very glad not to be driving out there thank you!




Officially the first snow man I have ever made. I think he's kind of cute.


A fair dumping of snow! It's stopped now and will no doubt be gone again by the end of the day.
Exciting though!



Update! More photos!
M came home from work early so we went and played in the park behind our apartment. It was like being a little kid!






Snowball fights - hells yeah


Our apartment building in the distance








PS: No news about my submission to change my status, but I’m in a better head space about it. I can’t change or control it so there’s no use being upset about it. Ommm. Very Zen.
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2 comments:

  1. Mezzle12 February 2010 at 01:57

    That snowman was adorable. And you know what else. I have not built one snowman, thrown one snowball, or made one snow angel the entire winter. You know why? Snow is cold.

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  2. Heather Anders14 February 2010 at 00:18

    im with you bec! snow makes me giddy excited. i often interrupt dave in a meeting to tell him there is SNOW. FALLING FROM HEAVEN.

    that beng said, it's probably becuase in my 5 years in london we've not really had more than an inch or two of snow which melts almost instantly. Once a year. However had a huge dump last year (possibly in feb 09 pics)... and this year.... well.... had about 2 or 3 already.... someone paging al gore?!?

    ps. the hippogriff comment was my fav too :)

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