The weather has been frankly miserable and my Mistress looked most out of place heading off to the physiotherapist in a pair of shorts yesterday. She wouldn\u2019t have looked so bad if it hadn\u2019t been for all the green, blue and black bruises that Shadow has left all over her legs. Still, her shorts were green so they blended in!<\/p>\n
My Master has been dead-heading the roses. While he wasn\u2019t around, my Mistress nipped out yesterday and live-headed one of hers. She now has a beautiful rose bloom sitting in a little vase on her desk. It\u2019s called \u2018Harry Wheatcroft\u2019 and is pink and orange. It does look rather lovely, but I\u2019ve been made to promise not to tell my master.<\/p>\n
You may well have heard of Pavlov\u2019s dogs\u2019 syndrome. That was the scientist who got his dogs to respond to meringue with raspberries or strawberries or something similar. Well in our house it\u2019s more \u2018yoghurt pot syndrome\u2019. I have become adept at hearing a yoghurt pot being scraped out at quite a long range and can be relied upon to go running to the kitchen or wherever else the noise is coming from. My reward is to be allowed to lick out the yoghurt pot. Shadow follows me. She isn\u2019t bright enough to respond to the noise, but I share the winnings with her anyway.<\/p>\n
My Mistress is still trying to kill the algae in the barrel water feature. She had a bright idea yesterday. She decided to try \u2018soda crystals\u2019 to do it. She hesitated at the thought of \u2018Mr Muscle sink unblocker\u2019! Anyway, what she has achieved is turning the water a funny grey colour, but I\u2019m not sure that it has had any effect on the algae. She wondered whether she might as well put the rest of the packet in now, but I said she\u2019d probably done enough damage already.<\/p>\n
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