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It was either new carpets – or happy dogs

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

21 July 2018

9:00 AM

Instead of carpeting the upstairs of the house, I had grass fragments removed from the dogs’ ears.

I can’t say I enjoyed the grass removals as much as I might have enjoyed having carpet to walk on. I had picked out a lovely stripy pattern that wouldn’t show the dirt, and was really looking forward to not slashing my feet with splinters every time I stepped out of bed on to bare floorboards.

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