Reading

As you saw at Christmas, Holly loves to open parcels. She also enjoys 'reading' my post.

She is not too bothered by bills, circulars and junk mail but loves cards. Whenever there is a card to open she is there by my side.

Firstly we examine the envelope, I am looking at the handwriting and post mark trying to work out where it was posted and seeing if I can guess who sent it, I think holly is checking all the people who have handled the envelope.

Next we open the envelope and look at the card, most cards sent to me have an animal theme. Holly has a cursory sniff at the outside, she is more interested in the inside.

I have to make sure that I read the inside first because once Holly has finished sniffing and, occasionally, licking it the ink has got a bit smudged and smeared and some bits have been known to be unreadable. So if I read it first I can note down important information such as changes of address before they are obliterated.

Linus sometimes joins in reading cards but he is more interested in running round chasing after scrunched up envelopes. Olaf is not interested in reading or chasing but has been known to use a pile of cards as an impromptu bed.