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Handy household management tips
If you have a net over your fishpond to stop the herons and cats from bothering the residents, you may have noticed that the top of the net gathers up rotting leaves at this time of year.
Although you will, as a diligent housekeeper, have been carefully periodically removing the dead leaves, sometimes you just need to get in there and have a clear out. I have the perfect solution.
First, ensure that you have an elderly dog who is currently not on her usual pain medication. If you can further ensure that the replacement medication makes her stoned without actually stopping her from hopping along like a hoppy thing then this is a bonus, as it will act as a reminder to tidy your fish pond.
Second, take your elderly dog outside for a wee. As her pain medication is not working, she will be unhappy to do so and you will have to constantly shine your torch backwards so that you can check that she is actually following you onto the lawn.
From there, it will be a (literal) short step into the fishpond, where you can carefully remove the floating leaves before continuing your dog-toilet exercise.
Note: this is an advanced household hint, and works best if you have a person in the house to whom you can later shout "Please will you bring me a towel, dressing gown and dry pair of socks", otherwise you will subsequently have to mop the kitchen floor. Unless you forgot the part about taking the dog for a wee, in which case you'll be mopping it anyway.
Additional note: you may need to replace the net over your fish pond later.
Further note: if you happen to be wearing a cashmere sweater when cleaning your fish pond, this will provide added incentive to look up the best way to wash cashmere.
Pro Tip: remember to wear old slippers. Not the ones you bought last month. Still, at least you have an aga:
Although you will, as a diligent housekeeper, have been carefully periodically removing the dead leaves, sometimes you just need to get in there and have a clear out. I have the perfect solution.
First, ensure that you have an elderly dog who is currently not on her usual pain medication. If you can further ensure that the replacement medication makes her stoned without actually stopping her from hopping along like a hoppy thing then this is a bonus, as it will act as a reminder to tidy your fish pond.
Second, take your elderly dog outside for a wee. As her pain medication is not working, she will be unhappy to do so and you will have to constantly shine your torch backwards so that you can check that she is actually following you onto the lawn.
From there, it will be a (literal) short step into the fishpond, where you can carefully remove the floating leaves before continuing your dog-toilet exercise.
Note: this is an advanced household hint, and works best if you have a person in the house to whom you can later shout "Please will you bring me a towel, dressing gown and dry pair of socks", otherwise you will subsequently have to mop the kitchen floor. Unless you forgot the part about taking the dog for a wee, in which case you'll be mopping it anyway.
Additional note: you may need to replace the net over your fish pond later.
Further note: if you happen to be wearing a cashmere sweater when cleaning your fish pond, this will provide added incentive to look up the best way to wash cashmere.
Pro Tip: remember to wear old slippers. Not the ones you bought last month. Still, at least you have an aga:
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Teddy
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Teddy
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Cross reference under Adventures in Pond Ownership?
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Oh dear.
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(Sidney, when still barely more than a puppy, leapt into what she believed to be a lovely green dip in the grass but was in fact a very weed-covered pond. She didn't half reek when she got out again, and we were on our way to dog daycare. Happily they had a tap and said they'd wash her off for me.)
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She once chased a rabbit across the Up The Hill's front garden and didn't realise that the green square on the patio was a weed-filled pond, which was very funny.
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