Little things, little minds

I have invented a new dog game: Bottle Battle. Though we have so far escaped the snow, the wind outside has a knifelike edge that even the dog thinks it’s a bit much, so she is staying inside, and bored, especially since the Professor is still in the south. A bottle battle is highly hilarious. She’s always had a taste for empty mineral water bottles, which make a wonderful amount of noise if you run round the house with one. What a battle consists of is squaring up to the dog with a bottle. You then try and bat her on one flank or the other with the bottle, while she tries to evade. When you are bored or she is overexcited, you toss her the bottle, which has thus become The Enemy and therefore a delightful object to be galloped about the house with, jumped on, and chewed. Polypropylene seems not to be susceptible to labradors, fortunately.