Will this do?

Rain and wind on a Sunday afternoon call for an emergency dog blip! I asked Russet to sit; she sat. I asked her to hold her new bird; she obliged. I knelt down on the floor and she dropped her bird and tossed her head, as if to say: Will this do then? It will.
We are waiting for my sister in law who is coming for supper and the night en route home. The supper is almost ready and it was so cold we thought we'd better welcome her to a warm house in more ways than one!
So the heating has gone on for the first time this autumn!