Filthy Slush Puppies

You don't have to look far to find ridiculous stories from around the world.

This one concerns an dirty, filthy, disgusting, pornographic version of the Venus de Milo, fashioned in snow

It turns my stomach every time I look at it.

Thankfully, a decent, upright, moralistic neighbour had the good sense to alert New Jersey police to this obscenity.

A good thing too, as who knows how many young minds may have been corrupted otherwise.

Faced with knocking it down or covering it up, the pervert who created this so called 'art', chose to dress it modestly in a fetching green bikini top and royal blue sarong.

Public decency must be upheld at all costs.

Snow

What is it about our fascination with snow?

Maybe it's because we rarely see it here, we become child like with wonder and imagination.

On any other day my waking our girls early would have resulted in a few choice words. This morning, however, they both looked confused enough not to shout at me when I said 'look out the window girls'.

In a short time, they were making snow angels and having fun snowballing each other. Marley dog hadn't seen much snow before and was understandably cautious.

The snow had caught us by surprise and meant we needed to be creative in our entertainment plans, and yet old habits die hard and Sunday papers were duly collected along with an array of tasty Christmas treats.

Like snow, life occasionally throws us a few extraordinary curve balls, which we need to try to deal with...