I am your constant companion,
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am at your command.
Half of the tasks that you do you might just as well
Turn over to me and I will do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done.
After a few lessons, I will do it automatically.
I am the servant of all great people
And the regret of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine but I will work with all its precision
Plus the intelligence of a person.
Now you may run me for profit or you may run me for ruin.
It makes no difference to me.
Take me, train me, be firm with me and
I will lay the world at your feet.
Be easy with me and I will destroy you.
I am called Habit!

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Prickles has left us.

Got home yesterday to find the lid of his box was knocked off and he was gone. Should have called him Houdini because I know that lid was on properly and he used to try and escape whenever you tried to clean him! There is a hole in the shed where we had put him to acclimatise and to get him ready for winter.

He was the correct weight for hibernating, so hopefully he has found somewhere to go and make his nest.

I am worried though.

We will keep putting food out in the meantime in the hope that he knows where to come if he can't find somewhere and made his bed in the shed just in case!