Meet Geoff the Snowman!

Posted on February 2, 2009 at 10:40pm

London awoke today to a white city, and with most of the transport ground to a halt, pretty much everyone seemed to be bunking off work. Now, working from home, I didn’t have the luxury of that excuse — but then what’s the point of being self-employed if you can’t get away from the computer and have some fun in Britain’s most snowy day in 18 years?

While steadfastly neglecting the vibrations coming from my trousers (from my phone, of course), I spent the day over at nearby Brockwell Park sledging down the hill on my bodyboard (well, it hasn’t seen the sea in two years, so it deserved some action) and building my best snowman to date, along with my friend Tom.

It actually got a little hard to finish off, as seemingly endless streams of people kept asking if they could pose for photos next to our new buddy, but an hour and a half after starting — at the point where my toes felt like they were packed in ice — we figured he was as complete as he was ever going to be:

I’ll go back to being responsible and getting some work done tomorrow, but damn it, it was fun adding an extra day to the weekend for just being a big kid!

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