Pick Me Up! Special

PUP-UP TENT

Running downstairs in warm clothes and a big hoodie, we knew what was coming…

‘Night, Mum,’ my son Ashley, now 13, announced before opening the back door.

And there was someone special waiting – Sprocker Spaniel Bertie was wagging his tail raring to head outside.

Since 28 March 2020, Ashley had been sleeping in the garden in a pop-up tent companion.

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