Snow

This web page is in honour of the first snowfall of the winter of 2004/2005.

The purpose of this web page is only to show that snow is of no use whatsoever unless there is enough of it to do this:

The above photograph was taken sometime in the early 1980s at Twentywell Lane, Sheffield, a time and place of Real Snow.

Snow is also of no use whatsoever if it falls in a place of utter Flatness like Cambridge. It's rather difficult to go sledging, for a start. Neither can you experiment with your car to see how steep a slope it will manage in the snow. There is nothing quite like Twentywell Lane or Prospect Place, the latter feeling like a 1:1 incline, in Cambridge.

However, I suppose you can still make a Snow Dalek! The following photograph was taken during the last snowfall of the winter of 2003/2004. It's amazing what one can do with two oranges, an oven baster, a sink plunger and an apple stuck on the end of a rotten old screwdriver.

I know there is little to judge the scale of the first photograph, but just note how much smaller the Cambridge snow dalek is in comparison to the Sheffield one.They don't make snow the way they used to.

Even the sink plungers were bigger then. And there was an ample supply of ball cocks, whereas nowadays one has to make do with an apple on a stick.

Observe the poor quality of the snow and the excess of leaves embedded in the dalek. None of that nonsene twenty years ago!

It is rather interesting to note how persistent snow daleks can be. The following slightly surreal photograph was taken a whole 7 days after the above photograph. It's rather interesting to note how the two oranges, the plunger and the baster seem to have migrated quite some distance away from remains of the dalek. This may be owing to the expansion of the universe or other mysterious forces.

I'm not entirely sure what happened to the apple, but Hedgehogs are certainly indigenous to Whittlesford.