practise I may wash a few dishes and stuff a few pairs of All Stars back under the glass-fronted bookshelf which stands by the front door at the cottage and which I have forgiven for the lack of that bottom shelf because the All-Stars space is useful, and throw out a few truly elderly magazines which now I also have KNITTING magazines to read I probably never will get back to.^  And it doesn't take a puppy long to pee/crap.  The thing that brands me as a Bad Puppy-Ruining Dog Owner however is that in both cases she did it in front of the back door -- the door I should have been there to open for her -- and which would furthermore mean, had all gone to Perfect Puppy Trainer Plan, she would have been rewarded for. The joys of a food-oriented dog. She can hardly pee fast enough to rush back and get her bit of kibble.  In fact I suspect that sometimes the reason she has to pee again so soon is because she cut the first one short because she was HUNGRY. But the point remains.  People are human.  And so are, um, puppies. ^ I was buying petrol the other day, at the garage in Warm Upford I've been going to since I moved over here+, and I was talking to Filbert, who I have been seeing at that garage since I moved over here.  We were talking about the weather, because that's what you