THE recent snowfall saw many of readers getting creative and building snowmen of all shapes and sizes.
For one Knutsford resident, it provided a throwback to a story that first made the pages of the Guardian back in February 2009.
At the time, Jan Christensen contacted the paper with a photo of her nephew Luke Riding, crouched next to a giant snowman he had made in the back garden of his parents home in Holmes Chapel.

Knutsford Guardian: Luke was just 14 when he made his original snowman in the back garden of his parents home in Holmes Chapel.
As Jan explains, the snowman was fairly unique and was perched on a bench in the garden, with little room on either side to join him.
Fast forward 11 years, and Luke, now 26 and working as a commercial airline pilot, has brought the snowman back from the freezer and into the front garden of his Poynton home, with the help of his two-year-old son Theo.
"I just thought it was really funny when he sent the photo on our family WhatsApp group," Jan explained.
"I just burst out laughing and it reminded us all of when it was in the paper the first time around.
"It's always been remembered what he did back then as he'd just done it all by himself.
"It wasn't even that snowy back then either, he'd just managed to clear the whole garden of every bit of snow to make it.
"It was just his imagination at the time and we had no idea what he was making at the time or why he did it."
However, the snowman finally made it back to his bench, albeit some 11 years later, with Luke now living with his fiancée Clare and a father of two children, including Theo and nine-month-old Archie.

Knutsford Guardian: Luke, now 26, sits with two-year-old Archie son Theo on his lap.
Jan added: "We normally have such big family gatherings but obviously at the moment we can't so are just keeping in touch through the group.
"Luke has followed in his father's footsteps and is working as a pilot now.
"He was only 22 when he qualified.
"When it snowed again the other week and he shared the photo, I sent back the scanned copy of the paper and we all had a good laugh remembering it.
"I remember being gobsmacked at the size of the photo the last time it was in the paper.
"There's so much serious news about at the moment, I thought it might make a nice change.
"I'm Knutsford based and it's such an ace community we have here and everyone is suffering in their own way at the moment, but this just made our family giggle when he made this second snowman.
"I remember his reaction when he was 14.
"He was ecstatic that his snowman had got into the newspaper."

Knutsford Guardian: Luke was just 14 when he made his original snowman in the back garden of his parents home in Holmes Chapel.