THE snow that provides a joyful backdrop to play-fights and declarations of true love in films appears to be a lot less wet, Britain has noticed.
While fictional characters delight in magical snowfall, minor real-world actions such as walking to work, taking the bins out or scraping ice from a car windscreen leave clothing saturated with icy water which actively diminishes joy.
Helen Archer of Kidsgrove said: “It looks all powdery and twinkly from inside. Actually coming into contact with it is a very different story.
“Just walking to the station yesterday I couldn’t detect any wonderful icey chime sounds or a score by award-winning composer Danny Elfman, but there was the soggy squelch of my shoes in sludgy puddles. They were still sodden for the walk home.”
Nikki Hollis of Carlisle said: “I had a small snowball fight with my sons in the garden. I stress small because, pretty much immediately after any one of us had taken a snowball to a gap in clothing, the water began seeping in and the fun was instantly over.”
Young lovers Jordan Gardner and Lucy Parry attempted a romantic tryst. She explained: “We thought laying down looking at the stars and making snow angels would be fun. Not cold, then cold and damp, then even colder and wet.
“We managed about 90 seconds. My white Zara coat’s ruined. You know what’s even more magical than snow? No snow at all.”
