Blessing

Evil Godmother at our puppy’s christening: “and lo from her birth she will be loved and admired by all, for she will be wondrous fair and have a winning nature – but beware, for on her tenth birthday she will develop an ugly and irritating skin condition that will cause her great misery and beggar her poor owners with outrageous vet bills! I have spoken!”

And so it was, forsooth – sadly.

Poppy and the conette of shame (cut to shape for a neck wound)