14. Hoping The Snowman In Your Garden Would Come To Life
If it wasnt for the wonderful Channel 4 animation The Snowman, you suspect the festive enthusiasm for kids building snowmen up and down the country wouldnt be quite so pervasive. There was nothing more exciting than your parents waking you up one morning to tell you to quickly look out of the window. And you knew why. Seeing that first snowfall of winter was truly mesmerising and rushing out to make good use of it was imperative. Youd spend whole hours rolling a snowball into a huge body, stick a smaller, slightly misshapen one on top as a head then stand back and wonder why it didnt look at all like The Snowman. Still, youd eyeball it all day and evening from the window hoping it would magically spring into life and take you flying around the neighbourhood. It never did though and the poor sod would ultimately melt into a disgusting pile of black snow and face-lacerating ice. Sigh.