Throwing The Baby Out With The Bathwater.....

Well, he's not quite a baby, but I understand that the origins of this saying were in the tradition of Daddy having the first bath, then Mummy, then the children in age order so that by the time the baby got his turn the bath water was very sludgelike - yecch!

He's actually the only one who's been in the bath, but he managed to find a HUGE mud puddle in the forest and had the fun of Cork leaping in and out of it, so with all the mud and all the soap (and the carrot to boost his energy after all that scrubbing) he finally emerged again, all scrumptiously clean: