Dulux is a paint, right, and I can never see one of those shaggy Old English Sheepdogs without thinking of Dulux – which is pretty great marketing. I’m sure the man or woman who first sat in an office and said, “hey, why don’t we make our mascot a shaggy dog” would be proud.

Dulux is celebrating their 50^th anniversary this year, and they’ve released a range of trinkets that you can buy to celebrate along with them.

They sent us a sampling of their goodies – the Dulux Dog Soft Toy and the Blue Spotted Dulux dog mug – to see what we thought of them.

Well, sort of…

We're all about 'big' things here at PlayPennies today. Just look back on today's posts and you'll see a Giant Space Hopper, Toy Story Jessie Giant Doll, and the 48” Animal Alley Brown Bear, and I'm going to tell you about the fab Animal Alley 55” Caterpillar that's on sale at Toys R Us for £14.99 – half it's original price!

• Supersize your cuddles with the caterpillar from Toys R Us

I had a good giggle at some of the comments on HUKD about using this as a draft excluder, which, technically, I guess you could!

Much better use, however, would be as a cuddle toy. I mean, who doesn't love cuddling with a 55” soft toy?

Another great use for these is to help prop a baby up – a friend of mine had a similar one, and whenever we went to visit her she'd wrap it around my little girl and pop them both up on the sofa. It was great fun. Her daughter was a little older, and would lie on/around/under/next to it when she was watching TV.

Anyway, so you can get these from Toys R Us, delivery is £4.95 and although you wont have it in time for Christmas, it'll still make a great winter snuggle buddy.

Thanks to monkeydribble at HUKD