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Outside door. I.e. no indoor shopping malls.

Something new I’ve learned today. Didn’t know he was her current squeeze. Quite like her writing too. Seems a strange match, particularly given the seemingly never ending run of court appearances.

We were having a similar conversation in the pub (remember them?) a couple of years ago about how our clematises (clematii?) were all out in full force and looking really strong. Jeannie the barmaid went pale and we asked her what was wrong? ‘Ive got the same but I’ve been going around telling everybody it’s my chlamydia that’s in full bloom!’

Magnificent. Used to live in that part of the world ~30 years ago. Fox Goes Free was our go-to for a good fun fSaturday afternoon and I had a wee thing (fnarr) with the barmaid at The Earl of March for a wee while. No’ the brightest but legs that went on for miles. Bunch of Tories right enough. Probably all voted Leave too. Spitfires over Goodwood Aerodrome you see, wat?

I'd watch that and maybe check. Our course is dead strict on there being no caddies or hingers on. Its just the two ball and that's it. And there's plently little Hitler park-keepers all to keen to grass you up too....

Don’t want to get all oaksofty here but there’s got to be some acknowledgement of the employers’* situation surely? Arbitrarily let’s say everyone’s back at work end of September. Sweeping generalisations now follow for the sake of brevity. The employer is then playing either mad catch up to cope with the previous 6 months‘ backlog or furious scraping about to get the business back up to approaching something like sustainable but their workforce decide they want their 4 weeks’ holiday entitlement in the following 3 months? Surely it can be seen how that just doesn’t work? A place I used to work had a loose rule it was a week in the spring, a fortnight in the summer and a week in the autumn. Seemed perfectly fair to me. Asking people to burn holidays in relation to the calendar year doesn’t seem the most heinous of employment crimes, particularly if you’re furloughed and sitting on your arse anyway. Not a huge leap of faith to suggest that when the inevitable redundancies start happening it’ll be the same characters on here telling us it’s all the fault of the big bad bosses’ mismanagement. *and when I say ‘employers‘ I don’t mean global plc’s like the financial services sector etc, more like those run by @Granny Danger or that @philpy works for.

Wee b*****ds. I just go chemical on them. Come back every year, f**k knows where from.

Please bear in mind I have a distinctly lady-ish 21 handicap but today managed a very respectable 9 hole round of 5-5-2-4-6-4-5-9!!! (lost ball,heads gone) -3 for a very respectable 43 that would certainly have seen me cut a couple of points if it’d been a medal. The reason? Sensible shot choice chat on here, a 1 week old new set of Wilson irons that I’m getting confident with and yesterday’s £20 purchase of a 3-wood off gumtree. Driver never out. Thanks chaps. And the fact that I’ve played every day (ie actually been putting some thought in) undoubtedly has had an impact. Who’d have thunk it? Play more, get better!

Ocht. Just joshing. Didn’t think you were one with a thin skin!

In that case it’ll be lime cordail.

Get a dog. Deeman’s already done the legwork for you.

Lime in Bombay Sapphire, cucumber in Hendricks.

Royal & Ancient Tillicoultry GC. Please don’t stalk me.

Really rather enjoying the new regime. Our course is fairly well undersubscribed but it’s 9 holes only for 2-balls and 15min booked tee times. Turn up with shoes on, start at 4th (avoids congestion at the clubhouse), 90mins round, off, home.

Only one thing to add (and I don’t know a lot of the variables involved so do take this with a large pinch of salt) is I’d suggest a yellow one over a black one. I suspect you are in much warmer climes and also suspect Oz-bred labs will have evolved to the climate but black ones ain’t great fans of the heat. Our big chap really didn’t want to do too much at all through that last hot spell we had. Yellow ones are of course an absolute b*****d for dog hair everywhere (same as every other one tbf but it’s just far more noticeable) but ye pays yer money and makes yer choice. And I know there’s also the choice of a chocolate one too but I’ve yet to meet one that is properly wired up. Again, make of that what you will. Keep us posted!

Good point well made. Close thread.

^^^ this is the absolute true-ism of thread. Get any dog you want, treat it well, feed it well, train it well and - most importantly love it - and it’ll be absolutely fine. As has been said, certain breeds attract certain types of owner and they then exhibit certain types of behaviours. It’s not the dogs fault, it’s the owners. Boils my piss. Sweeping generalisation but Staffies get a generally bad rep because they tend to get picked up by arseholes. Labradors get an easy ride because they tend to get taken in by middle class families. Make of that what you will. Re-reading the original post, if you want a jogging pal, I’m going to suggest a lab/collie cross.

You were of course correct with your initial thought. A labrador. Hands down the best family dog you'll get. Labrador-crosses also get my vote as you'll get all the benefits of the breed but less likely to come with some of the later life issues (dodgy hips, etc) that can affect some of the less diversely bred. Price should absolutely not be any sort of factor in your choice though. A seems-to-cheap-to-be-true is likely only going to cause significant heartache down the line. You've got 10-15 years with the thing. Spread the initial cost over its lifespan and it'll end up making zero odds whether you've homed a rescue or paid $AU000's for it. And watch where you're getting it from - that'll tell you as much about the dog as anything. Those that are happy to palm you off with a dog at the earliest opportunity should be treated with some caution; those that give you a thorough grilling about your family, lifestyle, work habits and the dog's future care (to the point of you wondering if they ever actualy want to let you have a dog) are absolutely the ones to deal with. It is however an absolutely fabulous addition to any family and I commend your decision!

What’s going on please?

I think we’re ahead of that curve here in Scotland. Your post even confirms your view on what you are trying to criticise. Everything is framed from a Nat/Yoon perspective with very little, if any, reasoned middle ground.

Not me, and it’s since been replaced with a single board sign but when it had individual letters screwed to the stonework (must be 15 years or more ago), The County Bar at Clackmannan Cross was regularly missing a single letter. Amused me at the time. Seemed appropriate.

Pull the other one!

What kind of mucked up personality disorder do you need to punch the dog and bite the burd... https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/man-accused-of-punching-dog-and-biting-woman-at-whitfield-property/

Perfectly fair. A 58-plate Mini with 60k miles. But it seems these things start to unravel disproportionately when the kids are in charge.