Do let us know how it goes with Dr Rug. I have two black Labradors - one so old she sleeps all the time as does her annual moult which only ends when summer is over - and we bought a house with creamy white carpet. The other is three years old going on 'only just weaned from the teat' and bounces around all over the show. Especially when it's been a Waikato mud day.
Re your columns: Do not. Ever. Read. The. Comments dear Leah. They are always written by would be writers - people with nothing else to do than be nasty. As we used to say in primary school, "come here and say that!"
You are a heavenly writer and my heart leaps up when I see your Substack email drop into my inbox. Much higher than when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
Your writing makes me cry with pleasure. Because Badger can become incontinent at the hint of one of us raising our voice at the other, we have bought our own carpet cleaner. I've got learned incompetence when it comes to working out machines, but Robert is now a real pro.
Is yours 3 of diamonds? That's a novel in 5 words. Wonderful.
Five minutes of delight reading your post and a pang of disappointment when I realised your Listener column must be online only. I subscribe to the hard copy and there’s just no more leeway in the budget (Super) for add-ons. Finally, my grandson who was a voracious reader as a child hasn’t picked up a book since he was 14, nearly three years ago. The Children’s Bookshop in Kilbirnie was our favourite stop on the way home and he treasured those books. He has excelled at school and his solid reading and comprehension skills are a huge factor. Boys do come back to reading though.
Thank you so much for sharing Leah (and Floriditas is always my first choice.)
Will be waiting to hear how the rug doctor goes - am minding the loveliest Cavelier King Charles Spaniel - so twice the hair but noticed a lot less sand since going to the dog beach now includes a risk assessment exercise.
You can mix the carpet residue from the vaccuum into the wet compost bin (it clumps in the dry) - it's an excellent source of nitrogen for the garden - or just chuck it in the rubbish. But what does one do with the dirty Dr Rug water?
I love your posts they are so much fun - sorry that Foraging has become so political.
We got our carpets steamed 10 years ago and the people said that the carpets were on their last legs. Now it's 10 years later. Time to do something about the carpets...
Do let us know how it goes with Dr Rug. I have two black Labradors - one so old she sleeps all the time as does her annual moult which only ends when summer is over - and we bought a house with creamy white carpet. The other is three years old going on 'only just weaned from the teat' and bounces around all over the show. Especially when it's been a Waikato mud day.
Re your columns: Do not. Ever. Read. The. Comments dear Leah. They are always written by would be writers - people with nothing else to do than be nasty. As we used to say in primary school, "come here and say that!"
You are a heavenly writer and my heart leaps up when I see your Substack email drop into my inbox. Much higher than when I behold a rainbow in the sky.
Your writing makes me cry with pleasure. Because Badger can become incontinent at the hint of one of us raising our voice at the other, we have bought our own carpet cleaner. I've got learned incompetence when it comes to working out machines, but Robert is now a real pro.
Is yours 3 of diamonds? That's a novel in 5 words. Wonderful.
Five minutes of delight reading your post and a pang of disappointment when I realised your Listener column must be online only. I subscribe to the hard copy and there’s just no more leeway in the budget (Super) for add-ons. Finally, my grandson who was a voracious reader as a child hasn’t picked up a book since he was 14, nearly three years ago. The Children’s Bookshop in Kilbirnie was our favourite stop on the way home and he treasured those books. He has excelled at school and his solid reading and comprehension skills are a huge factor. Boys do come back to reading though.
Thank you so much for sharing Leah (and Floriditas is always my first choice.)
Nice post - good to find happiness where you can.
Will be waiting to hear how the rug doctor goes - am minding the loveliest Cavelier King Charles Spaniel - so twice the hair but noticed a lot less sand since going to the dog beach now includes a risk assessment exercise.
You can mix the carpet residue from the vaccuum into the wet compost bin (it clumps in the dry) - it's an excellent source of nitrogen for the garden - or just chuck it in the rubbish. But what does one do with the dirty Dr Rug water?
I love your posts they are so much fun - sorry that Foraging has become so political.
We got our carpets steamed 10 years ago and the people said that the carpets were on their last legs. Now it's 10 years later. Time to do something about the carpets...
Wow! I remember Floriditas from when I lived in Wellington… I left on 2009! Hope the rug doctor didn’t disappoint 😊
Happy birthday to George. What a milestone!
Fabulous read, as always, thank you, Leah.