I can’t say with certainty what Fanny was up to in the Pole Barn, donkeys go their own way sometimes. She might have mistaken Red for a wolf in the snow, or she might have just wanted to say hello in the storm, or she might have just gotten it into her head, as donkeys do from time to time, that she was now the boss with Simon gone. I will  never really know.

Red, as always, took things in strike, he just ignored her and kept his eyes on the sheep. Fanny sniffed him carefully, I have a hunch she was glad to see him, and then moved away.