Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Doozergirl

I'd have eaten that. I'm currently waiting on a sandwich. Not holding out much hope tbh.

We've been rebuilding beds and wardrobes all day. I am as stiff as a board, dying for some light relief because the tension in my neck is affecting my small brain too. We get to do this all again plus renovate a house in a few weeks. At the moment, I could happily stay where I am.

DS's room was organised quickly. DD is 6 and seems to own more stuff than all of us. I've spent hours in there today and it looks no different (aside from 2 metres of wardrobes that we can't not erect unless we want to drown in pinkness). I have put so much in them already, yet the floor is still a sea of plastic randomness.

Glass of wine for dinner then.

Doozergirl

GDB2222 wrote: »

Labradoodles seem quite fun - two intelligent breeds of dog combined. I'm more interested in temperament than looks.

We have lots of doodle friends. They are lovely dogs, very placid, friendly, playful and bright. Doozerdog is a Border Collie/Poodle cross, often gets mistaken but he's smaller than his Doodle friends. He was a rescue but his previous owners missed out so much because is the loveliest, gentlest thing, very soft to touch and bright too. He can open all manner of doors with a bit of thought.

Happily let himself out of, and back into the PVC patio doors at the old house. He could open them from outside and that involved pushing a hefty weight of handle down and pulling the door towards himself at the same time. My only problem is that he never shut it after himself again! The doors here remain locked so he knows he has to ask permission if he wants to go out.

My friend was telling me about a Doberman that used to walk itself across a zebra crossing and down to and round the recreation ground and back when we were children!

PasturesNew

fc123 wrote: »

I hope i am reading this right.......a sibling moved in to take over whilst you went away?

Yes.

fc123 wrote: »

a resi weekend of learning etc?
I hope you are enjoying it.

A week! Loving it.

Just need lots of space and loads and loads of tools now

Doozergirl

Glad to hear it PN, goodness knows you deserve it!

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Personally, I would buy a cross, or a mongrel. The breed I'm most interested in are Labs, and they have some terrible hip problems because of the way they are being bred. Ofc, they are breeding the hip problems out, but what are they breeding in instead? I have no idea about the breeds you mentioned, but unless you are interested in showing I can't see why you'd bother with a pedigree.

Labradoodles seem quite fun - two intelligent breeds of dog combined. I'm more interested in temperament than looks.

MIL got a small mongrel from Battersea. She's as tough as old boots and has a very affectionate temperament. (The dog, not MIL.) We go for 5 mile walks on the heath, which is good for us, and the little dog bounds along and particularly enjoys barking at the squirrels. At the same time, she's good with traffic. I took her along for the charity walk in central London last Sunday, and she was good as gold off the lead. (Still talking about the dog, not MIL.)

I'm definitely getting somethig pedigree. Various reasons....and you never know. I might take it out showing

I'm not opposed to crosses at all, even overpriced ones, but I feel we should, in the dog world....and this is VERY controversial with the judge/breeder circles...register crosses and partbreds like we do with horses and other stock. Because then we can monitor health. Some breeds of cat and horse allow permitted outcrosses offspring back on to the main register opening the genepool further. more to the point, registered dogs can be tracked, records made of what they died of, what occured. Huge breakthroughs are being made by research funded by some breed groups...but fails out of breed group becaus eof lack of part bred register.

I'm also in support of licencing though. Odd sort of choices for someone who in general doesn'[t like beaurocracy.

edit: i do love standard poodles too though. But if I get wooly dogs then it puts of the sighthound ambition further. Actually, so does everything on the short list I suppose, as I know the other two breeds of sight hound well. Hmm.

edit again: I wonder what dh would say if I wanted to import a silken windhound. We can't afford to now though.

yet another edit: even within pedigrees of not so [popular but not very rare breeds at some levels its less inbred than people believe. e.g. less than some lurcher lines. Less than some villages.

And certainly less than Thoroughbred horses. Every tb in the world to day goes back to 13 horses, 3 stallions IIRC. so thats three foundation sires.

yet, the TB in general is a pretty high performing athlete in astounding phsical health compared to the rest of us, and most damage to hois man made creature is caused by man's further influence in training. Not that I like tbs and not that they don't have some faulkts almost as standard.

PasturesNew

If you've nettles and don't want soup .... you could try wrapping home-made cheese in nettles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarg

Doozergirl

Update: I have a chicken sandwich Meal Deal from the local BP garage. H is settling into this city dwelling thing, evidently. What a chef!

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm not opposed to crosses at all,

That reminds me, I never mentioned it, but about 3-4 weeks ago I was driving along a road and randomly saw a man carrying a cross.... obviously doing some church/charity walk. Must have been a big walk as he was entirely alone ... huge, full-sized cross it was, with a tiny wheel at the base. He had it over one shoulder, then the small wheel was on the road.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

That reminds me, I never mentioned it, but about 3-4 weeks ago I was driving along a road and randomly saw a man carrying a cross.... obviously doing some church/charity walk. Must have been a big walk as he was entirely alone ... huge, full-sized cross it was, with a tiny wheel at the base. He had it over one shoulder, then the small wheel was on the road.

Seamless link! :rotfl:

I once saw a man driving a sofa

(goes back to eating her sandwich)

lostinrates

why on such a warm evening are the cats competeing for who can smother me first?