19 December: Build a Snowman Day

It's Build a Snowman Day. As I write this there's not much snow in the UK so we'll have to be content with reading ten snowman quotes and jokes instead.

1. Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled.
2. Why did Frosty the snowman want a divorce? Because he thought his wife was a flake
3. What do you get if you cross a snowman with a vampire? Frostbite
4. What's the difference between a snow man and a snow woman? Snowballs
5. Two snowmen standing in a field, one says to the other “Can you smell carrots?"
6. It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea. Dylan Thomas
7. Wisdom from a snowman: It's okay to be a little bottom heavy.
8. When life snows you under - make a snowman!
9. Frosty the Snowman is a fairy tale they say; he was made of snow but the children known how he came to life one day.
10. When a snowflake falls, a snowman somewhere is blowing you a kiss.

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A Very Variant Christmas

Last year, Jade and Gloria were embroiled in a bitter conflict to win back their throne and their ancestral home. This year, Queen Jade and Princess Gloria want to host the biggest and best Christmas party ever in their palace. They invite all their friends to come and bring guests. Not even the birth of Jade's heir just before Christmas will stop them.

The guest list includes most of Britain's complement of super-powered crime-fighters, their families and friends. What could possibly go wrong?

Gatecrashers, unexpected arrivals, exploding Christmas crackers and a kidnapping, for starters.

Far away in space, the Constellations, a cosmic peacekeeping force, have suffered a tragic loss. They need to recruit a new member to replace their dead colleague. The two top candidates are both at Jade and Gloria's party. The arrival of the recruitment delegation on Christmas Eve is a surprise for everyone; but their visit means one guest now faces a life-changing decision.

Meanwhile, an alliance of the enemies of various guests at the party has infiltrated the palace; they hide in the dungeon, plotting how best to get rid of the crime-fighters and the royal family once and for all. Problem is, they all have their own agendas and differences of opinion on how to achieve their aims.

Not to mention that this year, the ghosts who walk the corridors of the palace on Christmas Eve will be as surprised by the living as the living are by them.

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