Ever accident prone, Chris and I have accidentally adopted a puppy. This began as the idea of one of the teenagers we accidentally acquired sometime back. “Let’s get a puppy!” she suggested. “No and bleepity-bleep no!’’ we replied. Still, the unwelcome idea, once spoken, burrowed away like a sinister termite, carving out more and more space in our consciousness. We’ve been down one dog since last August when the passing of Sydney left us with a lone elderly Border Col