To insist proper snow etiquette is observed?

[headfairy]

1. don't throw snowballs unprovoked in to the face of strangers, even if you are a cute little 6 year old girl. Unless they actively encourage you to start a snowball fight with you, don't.

2. when a stranger you've just thrown a snowball at politely asks you not to, please don't do it again.

3. if you do decide to ignore point 2 above don't be surprised if the stranger throws a snowball back at your face,

4. do not sledge directly at someone at high speed and completely out of control.

5. especially if you are 45 and your kids are standing around bored while you dominate use the sledge.

6. do not demolish someone else's snowman lovingly crafted with their children so you can take the snow and build an even bigger and ever so slightly obscene snowman.

That is all until I can think of more to whinge about

Every road has a tool philmassive

Don't throw a snowball high in the air in order to hit your friend who is two steps behind you.

Whilst sniggering it may just come down, splat, directly on your head and slither southwards into your open handbag.

If you are a large lumbering teenaged boy, do not have snowball fights the length and breadth of your road, lobbing snowballs a good 20ft at a time regardless of the number of people/small children/elderly folk who need to walk along it.

If you are my friend Tony, so not skid your landrover into the ditch.

Do not laugh at the 27 year old woman who lives alone on your street who gets up stupidly early to build a snowman! (She has feelings too! And no kids to pretend to be playing with!!)

If you have snow, please don't gloat. We don't have ANY, only rain....and I love the snow. And DD was only 4 months old last time it snowed here so she has never seen it, and I so want to take her out to play in snow.