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| Ten brrrr-illiant things about snow | Ten brrrr-illiant things about snow |
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| 1. Legitimate onesie-wearing and Slanketry. | 1. Legitimate onesie-wearing and Slanketry. |
| 2. KNITWEAR. | 2. KNITWEAR. |
| 3. It makes you feel like you're in a Scandinavian drama series. Especially if you choose the right KNITWEAR. | 3. It makes you feel like you're in a Scandinavian drama series. Especially if you choose the right KNITWEAR. |
| 4. Even if you're not watching Borgforbrydallender, Splash! or Kate Middleton's abdomen, you now have something over which to bond with everyone else on Twitter #uksnow | 4. Even if you're not watching Borgforbrydallender, Splash! or Kate Middleton's abdomen, you now have something over which to bond with everyone else on Twitter #uksnow |
| 5. The delight/unholy terror in a toddler's eyes as he looks out at a world transformed. Mine's been pointing at the window and alternating ecstatic "Uhs!" with bouts of soul-shrivelling fear for an hour now. | 5. The delight/unholy terror in a toddler's eyes as he looks out at a world transformed. Mine's been pointing at the window and alternating ecstatic "Uhs!" with bouts of soul-shrivelling fear for an hour now. |
| 6. Using the big duvet. I recently invested in one so thick that it looks like nobody bothered plucking the geese before they went in. I have literally never been so happy. | 6. Using the big duvet. I recently invested in one so thick that it looks like nobody bothered plucking the geese before they went in. I have literally never been so happy. |
| 7. It's so beautiful. I mean, it's just SO beautiful. Rime a dog turd and it looks enchanting. Frost a rolling hillscape or powder a tree with snow and you may legitimately prostrate yourself before it in wonder. | 7. It's so beautiful. I mean, it's just SO beautiful. Rime a dog turd and it looks enchanting. Frost a rolling hillscape or powder a tree with snow and you may legitimately prostrate yourself before it in wonder. |
| 8. It sends you back to all the best books and all their best lines – Nicola riding back to Trennels looking up at "stars, sharpened by the coming frost" in End of Term, Will in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising stepping out into where "the strange white world lay stroked by silence." Laura Ingalls looking up at the frost-furred heads of the cabin nails above her bed in The Long Winter. Brrrrr-illiant. | 8. It sends you back to all the best books and all their best lines – Nicola riding back to Trennels looking up at "stars, sharpened by the coming frost" in End of Term, Will in Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising stepping out into where "the strange white world lay stroked by silence." Laura Ingalls looking up at the frost-furred heads of the cabin nails above her bed in The Long Winter. Brrrrr-illiant. |
| 9. A proper fall of snow will erase or blur the sight of most modern evils and uglinesses, so if you find a length of Victorian street without parked cars, you can squint and pretend it's 1845. If you need an aid to imagination, wear a pair of bloomers under your onesie. Lovely. | 9. A proper fall of snow will erase or blur the sight of most modern evils and uglinesses, so if you find a length of Victorian street without parked cars, you can squint and pretend it's 1845. If you need an aid to imagination, wear a pair of bloomers under your onesie. Lovely. |
| 10. There is no childhood – or therefore any other – joy to compare with getting a day off school because of snow. None. None. The only possible drawback is choking to death on your own happiness. Salt it away for future reference, kids, because it's all downhill from here. |