I had thought winter was over but I was wrong. When I got up this morning and looked outside it was white! Yes, we had snow- not that much to be honest, but the garden and the field behind our house were all white!

Hilary took me for my usual walk a wee bit later and there was still some patches of snow there, which I had fun licking up! It was also really windy (my silly female human described it as “blowy windy” but all wind is blowy!!) and there was some hail and sleet! I was glad I have a nice thick coat of hair as I didn’t feel the cold. My human however was only wearing a thin fleece over her top, and kept complaining she was cold. Her hands did feel rather icelike I must admit when she stroked me.

However I have a solution for her which I had heard about in the media this week. Simply save up all my dog hair when I am brushed, spin it in to wool, and knit a thick jumper with it!

That is what a couple from Newcastle have done so they can keep their (now dead) dogs close to them! Here is a picture of them wearing jumpers from shed hairs from Penny (a Swedish Lapphund) and Kara (a Samoyed) .