Snow days
There’s no escaping the current regular weather-watch updates I’m afraid. In the UK we are always obsessed by it and when we have snow, obsessesive compulsive commentary disorder really afflicts the many, me included.
We finally did get some snow in Surrey overnight on Saturday, not a lot but enough to cause some minor chaos on roads and flight cancellations at Heathrow. When the girls went out in the garden first thing Sunday morning I was expecting Renae to be super-hyped and to snuffle round getting covered, however it was really Susie-Belle who was the more animated. She skipped her way round the garden and was eager to get out again for her morning walk in the park so we dressed them both up and out we went, the humans much less keen than the canines to be out in the white stuff.
This could have been something to do with the fact they were cosily coddled in their Finnish Hurtta coats which in relative terms, inch by inch cost a few billion times more than the jackets we both have. I exagerate, but not much.
Renae is never that keen on wearing hers but Susie-Belle seems to enjoy the comfort and warmth that hers provides, she never complains when I put it on her. Stupidly on Monday when we met up for a walk with Janet, her foster mum, I didn’t take it with me and at Virginia Water there was a load of lying snow still and at the end of the walk, the poor little thing was rather shivery. Nothing that a warm bed in front of the fire when we got home didn’t solve, but I don’t think she was too impressed by my carelessness.
Back to Sunday, after slipping and sliding round the field and meeting a few of their pals, we headed home through the park where there was a lively snowball fight going on amongst a handful of members of our summer “6 O’Clock Club”. This is an impromptu gathering of dogs that meet up at 6pm each evening, the owners chat and socialise, the dogs play and socialise. Last year it built up to quite a big meet, with up to 15 or 20 dogs meeting up some evenings. With the dark nights, it gets put on hold till the spring time but there are smaller gatherings at odd times and if we’re lucky we manage to stumble upon them as we did Sunday morning.
