A decade of chaos, cuddles and chewed-up toys

Our sighthound Walter celebrated his 10th birthday last Friday, and this is why we can’t have nice things.

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Apart from being yours truly’s best friend in the whole world, and having a choice of two sofas and three beds to lounge on all day after his morning and evening walks, his personality is best described as Rod Hull’s Emu on Parkinson - he even looks like him.

Daughter #2’s triumphant return from her second five-month tour of duty in the Caribbean aboard the world’s largest cruise ship also heralded a bumper crop of presents for us all. An Inter Miami shirt in the colours of the Dolphins for yours truly, a classy yoga jacket for The Boss, one of those massive Stanley cups the size of a washing up bowl for her big sister and a teddy of her ship’s dog Rover for the boy Walter.