Where's Our Snow?

Last week, when my humans were watching the news as they always do, my ears twitched when I heard a certain word: 'snow'.

According to BBC Weather, Britain was going to be inundated with mountains of snow, causing train companies to take precautions and Heathrow Airport cancelling more than 80 flights.

Whilst half the country hates snow, as you can probably tell from that big picture at the top of the blog, I absolutely adore it. It's been four years since we had had enough snow for me to play in here in London so I could not wait.
Monday went by- no snow.
Tuesday went by- no snow.
Wednesday went by- no snow. But it was Thursday that the snow was going to fall, Thursday the weather people said.
Thursday came and- sleet.
SLEET.
I was fuming. Snow was what we'd been promised; snow was what I had expected.
But Thursday had let us down.
However, I kept my hopes up. The North was promised snow on Friday so perhaps London was due it then too?
Perhaps, the snow wanted to have the surprise factor and we were going to be able to build CASTLES in this belated snow.
Friday came.
Did it snow?
Yes.
But for how long?

About 10 minutes.

What a disaster. Nothing set in the garden, nothing set on the front lawn... There was absolutely no snow to play in.

My humans were disappointed and, more importantly, I was disappointed.

If any of you received the gift that is snow, I very much hope you threw endless snowballs for your beloved canine to (try to) catch.

Of course, I won't be giving up hope for more snow just yet- my paws are crossed.

Talk soon, 

Jasper x

Back in the good ol' snow days...

Noooo, don't go!

The wonderful stuff that is snow is sadly melting away in front of my very eyes... As you can imagine, I am very, very upset. I've had an amazing couple of days eating all that lovely stuff but now that's not possible.
Why can't snow stick around for 7 months of the year?
Ok, so 7 months may seem a strange timescale to you but there's logic behind it: I like winter a little more than summer so if the sun could shine brightly for 5 months and then it snow for the rest of the year that would be great!
Without snow, you can't:

• eat it
• make snow angels
• have snowball fights
• dig holes in it...

However, I guess that snow leaving is not all a bad thing. It means that spring is coming which means... CRUFTS- the biggest dog show in the world- is nearing!
The more long-term readers amongst you will have probably realised that I am a big fan of dog shows and I find Crufts awesome. Although I have never attended myself, that doesn't mean I haven't benefited from the show...
A large dog show = lots of shops = lots of treats to buy = lots of treats for me!
If you want more information on this AMAZING show, visit www.crufts.org.uk.
Talk soon, Jasper x

Snow is falling, all around me...!

Today, I woke up disappointed.
There was no snow whatsoever.
All across the news, there were updates on traffic disruptions and plain havoc due to a heavy dump of snow in some areas of the UK. My area was not one of these.
However, this changed and, yes, it SNOWED!
I've had such an awesome day playing in all that lovely white stuff that falls from the sky; here's a short video of me running free!

At the park, my human also took lots of photos of me so here are a few:

 

I hope you've all had as much fun as I have today and fingers crossed we can all play in it tomorrow as well! Talk soon, Jasper x

 

 

Snow? What snow?

For the past few days, I've seen lots of doggies tweeting about how much they've been enjoying the snow. I would've loved to have been one of these doggies but no, I wasn't. And you know why? Because where I live there was a pathetic amount of snow; by pathetic, I mean REALLY pathetic. As you may already know, I love eating, rolling in and running in snow but this wasn't possible when it snowed yesterday. When you looked into the sky, it looked quite heavy but when you looked at the floor, well, there was NOTHING. Apparently, tomorrow it is going to snow heavily but I highly doubt that from what I've seen so far... My human has had her weekend away cancelled due to this supposed snow- I'm not complaining though...! On the bright side, my human has said that she wants to take some more photos of me at my favourite park again which means lots of treats and time with my best toys- yey! If it does end up snowing where you are, remember to snap some photos of your doggie out playing in it on Twitter so I can see what fun their having.
Talk soon (well, maybe not that soon if it DOES snow), Jasper x