Francis is a real character. This time he's gone too far...

Francis has an annoying habit. He bites cardboard and paper. He doesn't actually eat it, but if he sees a cardboard box, for example, he will start biting bits off it and spitting them out. If you imagine how a shoal of piranha can strip a man to the bone in 30 seconds..... Francis has the same effect on cardboard boxes, reducing them to a pile of cat bite sized pieces in a matter of minutes.

On the top of a filing cabinet in the office, is an archive box which contains various important documents, such as bank statements. Unknown to either Vernon or I, sometime over the last few days, Francis has got into said box and shredded *everything* in there. Sigh...... My bank statements and tax returns are reduced to a slightly damp heap of bite sized chunks.

Copyright © Helen Simmons
January 30, 2001