Hair of the dog

For birthday’s and other special occasions, I tell Jill Y where I‘ve hidden the credit card. She then spends more money than Simon Cowell makes on The X Factor before complaining that I never put any thought into her pressy and that there’s never any personal touch involved. I don’t know how it happened but I accidently listened to her this year. Next to shoes, her favourite thing in the world is her dog – Puddles. She spends more time on that dog than she does on the phone and her second job involves talking to lonely men on the phone all night but that’s a story for another day. I thought I would push the boat out and learn how to knit her a sweater. It took me ages but she seemed to like the end result and when she realised Puddles had a part to play in it, she was over the moon: