Frodo Updated

Several of you have asked how is Frodo. Frodo is nearly a year old now and weighs over five stone. His grasp of English is already excellent and he always understands precisely what it is that he is refusing to do.

Further, like ourselves he is acquiring a considerable appetite for good books. We have concluded that he rather fancies himself as Double-0-Dog from the way he positively devours spy thrillers. Only the other day we spotted him getting his teeth into a vintage James Bond paperback out on the lawn. To assist in the rebinding process he had thoughtfully detached the two covers and located them elsewhere in the garden for safe keeping.

Our initial calculations suggest that we could probably halve our electricity bills by attaching a small generator to his tail. However we are cautioned by the ancient maxim that "Every dog has his day and the dog with a sore tail has a weak end".

The offer of a garden shredder remains (urgently!) open.

Martin and Barbara.

MBM,

B/W 12.3.2000.

(Parish magazine of St John the Baptist, Purbrook, April 2000)

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