If at first you don't succeed....

Try again.

We weren't sure whether Ruby would try and get our Christmas cards which are normally fixed to our internal doors on ribbons. Just to be on the safe side, DB attached some ribbon (ends wrapped in sellotape to stop the drawing pin splitting it) to the hall ceiling with said drawing pins:

For two consecutive mornings, the ribbon had pulled away from the tape and therefore the pins, and all the cards were on the floor.

Eventually, we tied small loops in the ends of some waxed string and tried again, this time successfully:

As we quite like the cards up there, the string will go in our Christmas box for future years.