Routine can be very important and similarly, when a new skill is learnt, it may be practised over until it becomes a habit. Take birthdays for example; The sending and receiving of cards. The singing of “Happy Birthday.” The repeated blowing out of candles on the cake that Houdini won’t actually eat. The opening of several parcels from Amazon which is exactly where our trouble started.
Shortly after Houdini’s 9th birthday, our postman left a parcel for our neighbours in their absence. I set it to one side to deliver later and went to enjoy the garden. Not long after, Houdini appeared at the open doors, giggling and holding what I thought at first was a bottle of orange squash. He giggled louder as he suddenly threw the liquid contents of the unfamiliar bottle across the patio.
An almighty smell immediately spread across the garden. It was a strange aroma, a pungent fishy scent - some interesting hybrid between a day at the seaside and the a local fish market. This was no bottle of fruit cordial but instead salmon oil for our neighbours’ dogs.
Lesson #1 of the summer: Do not assume that Houdini will read the name on any deliveries to the house.
Positive: Despite scrubbing to alleviate the stench, we now officially have the shiniest patio tiles in Northern Ireland!
Shortly after Houdini’s 9th birthday, our postman left a parcel for our neighbours in their absence. I set it to one side to deliver later and went to enjoy the garden. Not long after, Houdini appeared at the open doors, giggling and holding what I thought at first was a bottle of orange squash. He giggled louder as he suddenly threw the liquid contents of the unfamiliar bottle across the patio.
An almighty smell immediately spread across the garden. It was a strange aroma, a pungent fishy scent - some interesting hybrid between a day at the seaside and the a local fish market. This was no bottle of fruit cordial but instead salmon oil for our neighbours’ dogs.
Lesson #1 of the summer: Do not assume that Houdini will read the name on any deliveries to the house.
Positive: Despite scrubbing to alleviate the stench, we now officially have the shiniest patio tiles in Northern Ireland!