>There was snow on the chalk Downs this am but I doubt it'll still be there this evening. Sad, as my kids never get to toboggan (my 10 YO has only done it ONCE in her life, last year).

Being flatlanders, when we built our house back home, we used the soil dug from the basement to build a little hill in the yard, almost a meter high. Even that much would propel a sled some six meters, when the snow was right. Though, we didn't build it as fast as we hoped, so it wasn't in time for the second daughter - but she nevertheless enjoyed it together with the third (who is 9 years younger :).