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snowman ornament: a story in six photos you can make one too! just get some buttons and thread

Woking seemed to be the only place for miles around that didn't get any snow. So to cheer us up, here's a picture from 2010 of a Woking snowman. He's so happy sitting on the wall!

Anniversary Flashback: 2010 Our trawl through the last 10 years brings us to 2010, and quite possibly our most visited page of all time, still getting hits 3 years on ... it's the SAUSAGE NATIVITY And as a bonus, our favourite ever snowman - who gets rebuilt on a wall near our home every year that it snows, by persons unknown To download all the pictures from 2010, visit this link

We pretty much know by now that the baddies on this Christmas's Doctor Who  are going to be evil snowmen (weeping snow angels?). So for those of you who are sad not to see the Daleks this Christmas, here's some ideas to fill your holiday with those darling pepperpots. Make your Christmas tree look like a Dalek, by adding eye-stalk, plunger and silver-tape accessories! Last seen in 2009, here's another airing for the Snow Dalek. And way back from 2006, this is how the Radio Times celebrated Christmas. Bonus beats: A Dalek Nativity!

Special request in from our friend Sloop John B, who wanted a picture of a snow-dalek. Happy to oblige, John! In fact, there seem to be HUNDREDS of these all over the web so it sounds like a popular idea. What's the best snow-figure you've ever created? Send us a photo or link and we'll post the best! Here's one of our Calvin & Hobbes favourites:

Isn't it beginning to feel more like Christmas now the Advent Calendar is here? Did you have a nice chocolate from your High School Musical or right-on Fairtrade calendar? Have any of your neighbours put up an inordinate amount of Christmas lights outside their house yet? Well, today's picture is this cheeky snowman from Muji , who looks both raffish and rakish with his hat at such a jaunty angle. Two snowmen are standing in a garden. One says to the other, "Can you smell carrots?"