Ollie and the burnt fudge

Well another eventful day at chez Inky. After a day of paper work and usual feeding etc, let the dogs out into the garden for a race around. All the dogs can run free except Ollie who is the escape artist, as may have been already mentioned. So around the garden he goes on a long lead. so far so good until they all had to go in before the rain started again, all went well until the door had to be opened to call Billie in, who is always last, and Ollie took his opportunity and barged through the door. As he was heading towards the bottom of the garden he suddently stopped and realised that the pond was within his grasp and so altered course and ran straight into the pond giving the moorhens, and probably the toads, a bit of a shock. Oh what joy wading around then running out as he is nearly caught charging off in the opposite direction to the far side of the pond to wade in from that side. This went on for a while until at last he dropped his guard, because some smell or other took his attention, and he was grabbed. He started to walk obediently towards the house until he realised he was being taken in and planted his paws firmly into the grass and would not move, rather like a stubborn horse. He is a big heavy dog and was not going to give in easily, but with a bit of persuading and a notch tighter on the collar he eventually was put through the door into the house to be rubbed down. He looked mighty pleased with himself and started charging around the house with a toy showing off to the other dogs.
This happened not long before dinner time and for some reason or other it was decided to make fudge at the same time Unfortunately the cooker is not one we are all used to and while leaving the sugar, butter etc to melt and deal with some unfinished paperwork on the other side of the room, the ring got hotter than expected. Very hot sugar butter and milk poured over the top of the pan and burnt onto the cooker!! Charging across the room and quickly taking it off the heat most of it was saved, but the kitchen was full of the 'lovely' smell of burning sugar and the cooker was needing some serious wiping. Why do I try and do two things at once? Luckily that very evening we had found the very long pole especially designed for opening Velux windows, which is what is set in the roof of the kitchen, and the window was quickly opened to allow the burning smell to escape and let the rain in! Still it was very refreshing to have a shower while cooking the dinner - it can get a bit hot in the kitchen! Anyway the fudge did get made eventually, but has not set, can not think why. Mind you I have noticed the jar in which the fudge got put in, to set in the fridge is going down rather quickly so it must taste alright. Will do better tomorrow if not distracted with dogs, ponds or any other event.