Man, it's cold!

It is cold today. Super cold. Super duper cold. Super duper cold with hundreds and thousands. Super duper cold with hundreds and thousands and a glace cherry. Sup- well I'm sure you get the idea.

Today I wore, 2 pairs of socks, fleecey-insidey boots, thermal (Icebreaker don't you know) long johns which I pulled right up and tucked my vest into, jeans, knickers (of the sensible variety), vest, cardigan, coat, scarf, bobble hat (awesome) and wooly mittens (which were a present from Rachel - thanks Rach!). And by no means was I overheating! Oh no! Aside from the frankly exhausting task of hiding the fact I was wearing nipple-high thermal leggings from people in uni, I remained decidedly tepid.

So yes, in conclusion, it was cold today.

Professor Barnabus von Chocolate is doing well, a lot less growly since the last update. Now,  he occasionally he wags his tail with me in close proximity (!). However, if I look at him too long he slowly skulks behind the nearest chair/nestle of tables.

                                                         However,

There is something that unsettles me and I must admit, I do feel rather deceived...

When we talked about getting a new dog, I had two specifications:

1. Nothing too small and/or yappy. We want something you can take up a mountain. Also, as an aside, have you ever noticed the generally the bigger the dog, the thinner the owner? There's clearly something to that.

2. Nothing with an uppy tail. And by uppy tail, I mean a tail that goes up (try to keep up with the confusing terminology here). The reason that I don't like uppy tails is simple - I do not like looking at dogs bums.

It's bad enough as it is but it's even worse when you're taking them for a walk and they go trotting off ahead and you're left there with it bang smack in the middle of your field of vision. So, to summarise, me and uppy tails don't mix.

Now, at the kennels, Barnabus has an admittedly twisty but ultimatley non-uppy tail. In fact, it appeared more corkscrewed, like a pig. Little did we know that he was in fact hiding a dark and horrible secret. Yes, you guessed it, Prof. Barnabus Von Chocolate has an uppy tail. An an uppy tail of the most sensational variety in fact, it actually spirals up. As if just bending skywards wasn't enough, he has to flaunt it by saying 'Yes, my tail goes up. In fact it goes so up that it has to go down before it can go back up again!'.

I would get a picture of it but as his tail automatically drops whenever I enter a room, it's kind of hard. But I will endeavour and I will succeed, eventually...