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..

Ooh 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'd go.

Another cold, grey day here.   
A chap I know just called to collect my 24 hr heart monitor and take it back to the hospital for me.
Now I am on the way to take Gertie to the beauty parlour,  so that  just leaves me Liffey to do.

Liz needed a new outfit, her son was getting wed
The first dress she tried on was a vivid shade of red
She thought she wouldn't look the part
Sexier than the bride was not a good start
So she chose boring beige instead

Quote from: Scrumpy on <strong>Today</strong> at 09:56:08 AMI think 'Dangerous Dogs'  Concerning Pit Bulls and the rules that are now in force about keeping them is only a few years old..
I have read .. a few times.. of those who have been mauled by these dangerous dogs..
I certainly wouldn't go near them..
Perhaps they have 'bad press'. perhaps they have ' bad owners'.. But one must recognise that some breeds have an instinct to fight.. An instinct that is in their making... rather than trained to do so..

The Pit Bulls were banned in the UK in 1991, Scrumps,  but to the unscrupulous,  that usually just makes something even more desirable  - and makes more money for them, too.

I have never even liked the looks of those type dogs,  especially when idiots cut their ears off, too.   I wouldn't fuss one, either.
The ear-cropping became illegal in 2006 (I think),  but certain  'breeders'   send the pregnant mother away to whelp elsewhere where cropping is still legal,  and litter comes back all  cropped.   A truly wicked practice IMO.

I do believe some breeds have a fighting instinct,  just the same as German shepherds have a guarding instinct.

P.S.   Many years ago, one of my GSD pups went down to the Met. Police.   After a while they decided they couldn't use him though.  The reason I was given was because he would not bite!   
I was rather pleased with that, and had him back home.

I was at a garden centre yesterday.. The coffee shop was busy.. 
The shop.. full of sparkle and gifts was almost empty..
 I don't think people have much money to spend..

I don't answer the phone.. unless I know who it is.. 
I don't think I have missed anything important..

It's raining.. 
I got up this morning and.... on impulse..... cut my hair..

We have a fox that walks down the road... in the middle of the road... as if he owns the place..
He sits at my front entrance deciding which way he is off to.. Cars do not frighten him... drivers respect him.. He sunbathes on the top of my shed.. When the sun moves.. so does he..
Thank goodness that rats do not show themselves .. My friend has them popping into her garden..  

Quote from: klondike on <strong>Today</strong> at 09:04:13 AMRats and mice are everywhere here. You see bait boxes round the back of shops and bits of council land too in places. Don't get that many wild cats though although there are plenty of foxes in towns as well as the countryside.

There are bait boxes everywhere here, too.   They've even got them all round the doctor's practice, and the pharmacy next to it.

The wretched things have been in my garden and tunneling under my shed again too.   I mostly blame next door's chickens because he doesn't shut their hatch at night, so the rats go in for a party round their food trough.