he father of the bride rose to have his say 
But he'd had a few beers and began to sway

Quote from: klondike on <strong>Today</strong> at 11:17:34 AMI don't think anybody "normal" would buy a pit bull.

They would be in trouble if they did.
I think they mostly belong to criminals anyway,  as the dogs are good at their job,  and the criminals don't have to pay them wages!

There are several other banned breeds  too,  but it seems mostly the Pit Bulls that get talked about.

Quote from: klondike on <strong>Today</strong> at 11:15:51 AMIf it was important they'd text or leave a message although left messages seem a thing of the past and I never get any now.

True.
I find it it is anything important they usually do leave a message.   
Those silent callers I usually just delete.

Glad you've got rid of one lot Klondy,  but if it is anything like it is here,  you get rid of the present ones,  then the next lot come and try their luck.   And so on,  until after Christmas at least.

The father of the bride rose to have his say

Quote from: Scrumpy on <strong>Today</strong> at 09:56:08 AMPerhaps they have 'bad press'. perhaps they have ' bad owners'.

I don't think anybody "normal" would buy a pit bull.

If it was important they'd text or leave a message although left messages seem a thing of the past and I never get any now.

I had a rat or possibly rats get into the floor void. One came up in the cupboard under the sink and raided the bin. It had been in the cellar too. It took me a which to realise - I thought the multipack of crisps I had in a bag hanging from a shelf at the top of the cellar were bust when I bought them and I was being clumsy putting stuff in the bin and missing. Then I realised when the water pipe to my dishwasher was leaking because it had been chewed.

I opened up a hole at the back of the undersink cabinet and set a trap. I never had a customer but I opened the door when I heard scratching and saw it through the hole.

I removed the undersink bin and have a small auto opening one on the worktop for anything foody or soggy and the bigger bin in the kitchen gets used mostly for non-recyclable  wrappings. 

I pulled out the machines and blocked all gaps with wirewool laced polyfiller.

Roland got some nice little treats on a ledge between cellar and floor void and in some boxes from and back of the house. I also set traps. The traps never caught anything but the little presents disappeared and the blocks in the traps were getting chewed. I seem to be entirely rat free now but it took a lot of effort and quite a while to get to that happy state,

Quote from: Mups on <strong>Today</strong> at 10:24:34 AMOoh Scrumps,  I wouldn't dare cut my own hair.    How on earth do you do the back properly?
I do my fringe,  but that's about as far as I'

I never look to see what's going on behind me Mups.. 

I was not even aware of Pit Bulls in this area in 1991 !!!
Good gracious.. I thought they were a more recent breed..