Let it snow

For the past three days we have had snow here, in fact I think pretty much the whole of the south of England has had it. The dog loves running in the snow, when I first took her out she just ran for ages without wanting me to throw a ball for her, when we got back to the car though she had dozens of icicles dangling from her tummy and huge clumps of snow round her feet. The horses kicked up their heels when they were first put out into it, but now they are eager to get back into their nice warm stables with their hard feed and hage. Tonight I had a phone call telling me that the temperatures may drop to -9 C tonight and would I double rug Red. Poor Red isn't very well at all, she has lumps all over her and is itchy, she rolls and scratches and gets herself into a bit of a tizzy. We are waiting for the vet to ring with the test results so that we know exactly what is wrong. She has quite a cocktail of powders and tablets to take twice a day now, and she is so dubious about anything being put in her feed. Last night it was my husbands works Christmas dinner, all but one of the watch turned up, it was a really good evening. Good food, plenty of red wine and lots of dancing, (not by my husband though, he didn't get on the dance floor at all!). There were a couple of other groups from the fire service there and their tables were quite close to ours making it quite rowdy at times! I even bumped into the one with the scary eyes, from Aikido who was there with his other half, who was on one of the other fire service tables.