denotes premium content | Jul 31 2010 Regular
posted 5 Mar 2010 in Volume 13 Issue 5
Snow business
With the schools snowbound and closed for a few extra days last month, I persuaded my daughters to help me build an igloo. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do.
It took a lot longer than I thought and the pretence that this was ‘Dad helping them’ began to slip after a while, as my co-labourers needed a hot chocolate break or two along the way. I improvised with Tupperware boxes to make my bricks, learned as I went, and bullied/bribed my girls to hold up the walls when we got to the tricky bits.
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