Day 2.002: Snow castles

I rushed home from work this evening to help with bedtime because Exile #2 has hurt her back. She is sure it is not serious and is expecting to spring out of bed tomorrow. I hope she is right.

Exile #4 (definitely the snow-girl at the moment) seems to have perfected her snow-castle technique after school today. She first made some (using a beach bucket) with some of the leftover snow when most of the ground was clear just after Christmas - she is getting more ambitious now it would seem.

These ones are impressively located on top of a large potential-quinzhee (i.e. a pile of snow!) which is significantly taller than she is. Whether we will ever get round to excavating it is unknown. The temperature may actually peak above freezing tomorrow, but by the weekend when I may have time to do some digging (did anyone recognise the music?) it may be too cold for any of us to want to be outside for long enough.