Snow joke as youngsters build ice family

Emdad Rahman

An East End Family have made good use of time off school by building a batallion of snowmen.

The Bow youngsters spent the day having some old fashioned family fun by building a family of snow men, with the largest at 5'1" with a waist span of 360cm waist. The mammoth construction project in freezing conditions lasted from 10 am 3pm.

Older sister Shelima, a medical student at Kings College London said; “I can't remember the last snowy day we had like this, but it was absolutely great, got to spend lots of time with the family and community spirit was an all time high! There’s just something about snow that brings out the best in everyone.”

She added; “We all put a lot of hard work and effort into it, and my little brothers are ecstatic about it.”

“We started to build the smallest snowman on Sunday night, when the snow began to first fall. The neighbours bought us hot chocolate, as we were out till 11pm, building and fighting with the snow,” she added.

“Our Mother gave strict orders to not go out the next day, but we sneaked out nevertheless.

“We started with one but somehow, we ended up with a whole family of them. The largest was the hardest to build and we needed quite a bit of help with rolling it. It might be a fun act, but community spirit really came out that day, with our neighbours Ian & Celia helping out.”

Hussain; 11, a pupil at Bow school for boys spok Bangla; “My favourite part of the day was rolling up the enormous snow ball for the snowman, it was so much hard work, but it was really good fun!”

His older brother Akbur; 19, an aspiring chef and Tower hamlets College pupil added; “My favourite part was making the snow angels! Good times indeed. So many people came and took pictures of the snowmen, it was so cool.”

“I had a well deserved day off work for snowday funday” Said self employed Alinoor.

Another brother Alimul was away on holiday. He may hae returned with a tan, but missed out on all the excitement.; “I was expecting to be greeted by my family after a week away but was really surprised when a family of snowmen greet me instead.”

London Bangla Report