Sporting red balaclavas and thermal long johns, Diddley Squat leads them all with mittens, gloves and more mittens on each paw and anoraks so thick that he looks a bit like the Michelin man. With speeds approaching somewhere in the region of 60mph we send frosty white powder so far into the air that local residents think it's snowing as it falls a full five minutes after our descent and over a mile away from where we've just descended - truth is, it's just the heavy frost that has plagued this area the past two days. Though humans need inches of snow to toboggan in, hamsters, being small, can make do with severe frosts.
Hamsters enjoy having fun.
The humans have done well' he comments 'but there are one or two minor tweaks that need to be made. Kesef the Hamster writes for the Rodent Weekly. This article appears courtesy of that paper.