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She's our 3rd Border Collie John. I tend to take them over the golf course and hit a 9 iron for them to retrieve the ball Each shot is 250 yard run for them. They will do 1/2 hour with ease.
Unfortunately the weather is against that type of exercise though. Its surprising how much mental exercise tires them, so lots of training and treats. Her intelligence is actually a double edged sword with training.
I'm sure she will be a really good dog eventually. Shes losing puppy teeth at the moment, which always affects them.
Puppy stage is hard then with teens to look forward to.
That sounds great. Whilst checking the speed they can run at,having seen them on those sheep trials, I also read that if they don't get enough exercise they can become troublesome which I imagine some people who get them as pups don't appreciate., Hopefully, the breeders/sellers will point that out.
I've just remembered..Lol. When I were a lad..lol..17 years old I bought one,not knowing about all this excercise they needed. I can't recall how I came by him but my parents weren't aware until I arrived home with it. I left work , picked him up and sat on the top deck of the bus back home. He wasn't a pup but was young. I arrived home to find that the washing machine had malfunctioned and the kitchen was flooded. The dog loved it..straight in, splish-splash. Then, two days later on a Sunday, it managed to get hold of the Sunday joint off the worktop and ran off with it out of the back door,down the side and off down the road with my dad in pursuit. There were a few other hairy incidents and my parents couldn't cope. I was very lucky...more so the dog. A secretary at work lived on a farm in the Welsh hills near Chester and said she would take him. Sometime later, she told me how well he'd settled in and was turning out to be good working dog. That memory of the day I took him home has stayed with me ever since.
About three years ago we took some bedding to a local rescue centre for dogs and cats and saw a collie-type dog..grey/black coat with beautiful ice-blue eyes. My wife does what she usually does with animals..chatted to it..Lol. It was very responsive. We commented on it to staff and they said that it had been with them for a while and was being passed over by people wanting to adopt . We'd had two retrievers and wanted to spend time away on holiday, especially over winter so we decided not to get another dog. However, my wife's life-long friend who lived on the outskirts of the New Forest, had just lost her dog..old age.. so my wife got in touch. She and her husband drove up,stayed with us and went to see the dog. She loved it straight away. They weren't allowed to take it there and then so returned some days later. I think checks had to be made..and rightly so. We get photos of the dog and my wife visits about three times a year staying for a couple of days and, with her friend takes. "Beau"..out into the forest.
He looks exactly like this.
Edit. PS .Forgot to mention. You'll recognise him as a Grey Merle.
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I did wonder if that was the reason he was being overlooked at the shelter. Anyway, yesterday, my wife's friend called her and was able to show us, via her mobile phone, Beau running at speed along a forest path, stopping to look back at her and clearly loving his outing. He landed on his feet, as they say, going to live with them They have a huge house and grounds in Verwood, east Dorset ..10 miles north of Bournemouth.I love Collies but Merles eyes spook me out.
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WAMT!!
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'Ruins the magic' - Shop starts selling EASTER EGGS during Christmas festivities
Poundland in St Stephens Street, Norwich, has started putting chocolate Easter eggs on its shelves alongside the reindeer and Christmas crackers.
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WAMT!!
'Ruins the magic' - Shop starts selling EASTER EGGS during Christmas festivities
Poundland in St Stephens Street, Norwich, has started putting chocolate Easter eggs on its shelves alongside the reindeer and Christmas crackers.
Are we surprised?
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Sat at the lights and when they turned green I turned left and was immediately faced with guy crossing the road who then froze mid crossing. I stopped and waved him across and that broke his trance and he continued but the idiot behind me who also turned left and must surely have seen what was happening as he was in a SUV initially stopped and then pulled out overtook me. Thankfully the guy crossing the road survived.
SUV guy continued to drive like a twit with his drivers side wheels over the white lines trying to intimidate the car in front. The sort of twit who IMO needs points and fines that cameras probably wont catch.
SUV guy continued to drive like a twit with his drivers side wheels over the white lines trying to intimidate the car in front. The sort of twit who IMO needs points and fines that cameras probably wont catch.
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Agree that sort of moron annoys the hell out of me too, I had one tailgating me in town , I just slowed down a little bit until he got the hint
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People who pull in / park on the wrong side of the road, at night, with their headlights on, and sit there... with their headlights on. Blinding oncoming traffic because their beam is angled to the left. Then they have to pull half of their car out first into oncoming traffic because their low-iq / ignorance / arrogance failed to take into account that they are sitting on the wrong side of their car to have adequate visibility...whilst they continue to blind oncoming traffic.
I look at them thinking, you are the reason society has to move so slowly.
I look at them thinking, you are the reason society has to move so slowly.
Or how about the idiots that reverse past a "No-Entry" sign on a one-way street and carry on reversing looking for a parking spot... happens quite a lot on the road I live on.....
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I recently posted about how annoying the subtitles for the interpretation of the narrator on a video were. Karl Weiss would be Carl Vice.Someone gave an answer as to why that happens Unfortunately, I can't find my post nor that one.. I thought it was in this thread and have checked the WBMT thread but it's not there.I've probably not gone back far enough but I think it was only a week ago.
On my TV Youtube page is a wide selection of videos to watch..the 'Home..' Music..Search.. Movies.. News.. Library..etc.
Sometimes, there's a video on WW2 and often about how ordinary people, quite often youngsters in their early teens with no special training, hit upon ideas to carry out acts of sabotage on German forces in occupied Europe or RN sailors who come up with unconventional way to detect U-Boats. That sort of thing. The stories are built around actual events and real people but embellished to make a story. What also annoys me,in addition to the sometimes ridiculous translations of speech into subtitles are the background photos. Last night I watched one about a 22 year old female postal worker in an office in the UK where letters were checked..ie censorship.. who noticed something odd about letters from "Dorothy" regularly passing through the office. She identified a spy ring. One photo showed a calendar behind her on the wall. Across the top was written..
SIU MON TUU WED THE FER FRE TUI FEL SAT. Under these were the dates. Obviously not every seven days as they should be.
7 1 2
14 8 9
28 15 19
29 25 27
There were sepia photos of British soldiers in uniform with Wehrmacht badges on their upper arms. Sometimes epaulettes from neither British nor German uniforms. I assume a lot is done by AI but,even so, why does no-one check these videos for accuracy before release ?
On my TV Youtube page is a wide selection of videos to watch..the 'Home..' Music..Search.. Movies.. News.. Library..etc.
Sometimes, there's a video on WW2 and often about how ordinary people, quite often youngsters in their early teens with no special training, hit upon ideas to carry out acts of sabotage on German forces in occupied Europe or RN sailors who come up with unconventional way to detect U-Boats. That sort of thing. The stories are built around actual events and real people but embellished to make a story. What also annoys me,in addition to the sometimes ridiculous translations of speech into subtitles are the background photos. Last night I watched one about a 22 year old female postal worker in an office in the UK where letters were checked..ie censorship.. who noticed something odd about letters from "Dorothy" regularly passing through the office. She identified a spy ring. One photo showed a calendar behind her on the wall. Across the top was written..
SIU MON TUU WED THE FER FRE TUI FEL SAT. Under these were the dates. Obviously not every seven days as they should be.
7 1 2
14 8 9
28 15 19
29 25 27
There were sepia photos of British soldiers in uniform with Wehrmacht badges on their upper arms. Sometimes epaulettes from neither British nor German uniforms. I assume a lot is done by AI but,even so, why does no-one check these videos for accuracy before release ?
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You also get a lot of "How the USA won WWII without help from any other country, especially Great Britain and its Empire" I am sometimes tempted to point out that in the twentieth century the USA only fought one major conflict without help from Great Britain. It was with Vietnam and they lost that one.
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The US has never won a war on it's own. Could we have won WW2 without them? Doubtfully, but it was the amount of equipment they had that was the winner, not people.
My Dad, who was in the RAF during WW2, always used to tell me that the reason the US did daylight raids over Germany was because at night, they could never hit the target, so the RAF did it.....
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Your dad probably said that tongue -in- cheek. The US military have..maybe 'had' these days... always come in for a bit of ribbing. My nephew was part of ' special forces'..I never really got to the bottom of what he did. In the first Gulf war he was behind enemy lines..anyway, when he was on manoevres with US troops in Belize. he said they knew the US troops were near re the smell of their aftershave and whatever else . I doubt that was true.
To get back to what your dad told you. The USAF had developed a very accurate bomb-aimer system. the Norden.. and that's. why they carried out daytIme raids on strategically-important targets. As a result they suffered far higher casualty rates than the RAF did during their nighttime raids.
"The Norden bombsight was crucial to the success of the U.S. Army Air Forces' daylight bombing campaign during World War II. Initially developed by Carl Norden for the U.S. Navy, the Army Air Corps acquired its first Norden bombsight in 1932. Highly classified, it gave American forces bombing accuracy unmatched by any other nation at the time"
To get back to what your dad told you. The USAF had developed a very accurate bomb-aimer system. the Norden.. and that's. why they carried out daytIme raids on strategically-important targets. As a result they suffered far higher casualty rates than the RAF did during their nighttime raids.
"The Norden bombsight was crucial to the success of the U.S. Army Air Forces' daylight bombing campaign during World War II. Initially developed by Carl Norden for the U.S. Navy, the Army Air Corps acquired its first Norden bombsight in 1932. Highly classified, it gave American forces bombing accuracy unmatched by any other nation at the time"
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He also mentioned about being able to smell them (as well as hear them). Like I said, that targetting system was probably fine in the daytime, but they repeatidly missed the targets during night raids, even though they had apparently better equipment.
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Generally speaking, when the second world war started, all the combatants had equipment with problematic performance. However, nothing drives technological advance faster than war and WW2 was basically a race to develop ever better weapons.
The Germans were obsessed with ever cleverer toys, such as the Tiger tank or the Messerschmitt me262 jet fighter and the Japanese followed a similar approach, especially with their navy. The Americans and the Soviets went in for numbers, building many thousands of "good enough" tanks, guns, ships and aircraft. The British found a central path between these two alternatives, with aircraft, tanks and guns that were often that little bit more effective than their allies' equivalents but which were produced in numbers greater than the Germans managed.
To me, then, it seems that both Germany and Japan found themselves stymied, first by enemies with more weapons and later by enemies with bigger and better weapons.
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Church admin, PCC, Wardens etc.
I didn't volunteer to be a warden I was asked to be one, repeatedly asked. Mrs WW said it was a bad idea but their H&S is IMO weak at best and parts of it hadn't been updated for 10 or 15 years plus there's duplication, general messiness, things that should be done not being done and bad practices and as H&S, risk assessments and policy statements and the like were a part of one my jobs for 12 years I said I'd do it. Don't. If you go to church and anyone asks you to get involved in anything other than making the tea and washing up don't unless you think very very hard about it and take a good hard look at the people you'll be dealing with.
I didn't volunteer to be a warden I was asked to be one, repeatedly asked. Mrs WW said it was a bad idea but their H&S is IMO weak at best and parts of it hadn't been updated for 10 or 15 years plus there's duplication, general messiness, things that should be done not being done and bad practices and as H&S, risk assessments and policy statements and the like were a part of one my jobs for 12 years I said I'd do it. Don't. If you go to church and anyone asks you to get involved in anything other than making the tea and washing up don't unless you think very very hard about it and take a good hard look at the people you'll be dealing with.
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No good deed goes unpunished
Funny how I dealt with customers, multi million £ contracts, service levels, stats, engineers fighting engineers, customers fighting engineers, company directors, dishonesty, lies, theft, auditors, H&S inspectors and everything imaginable and in there somewhere there were some good times too but nothing prepared me for church admin. Too much baby. One step beyond. I should have seen the signs earlier. At the first meeting I went to I honestly shook my head in disbelief.
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True enough.
I've been a CoE church warden among other things, and it's important to remember that churches operate with the people who are members and willing to work - there is sometimes a smart interview process and careful selection, but the CoE needs warm bodies badly and will often take on almost anyone. Yes, you should have looked at those you were going to work with and known what you were getting into. It IS possible to resign (a letter to the bishop does it). In general I've found working with other church wardens generally great, but OTOH PCCs tend to be the stuff of nightmares because all sorts will get themselves elected to the PCC to do all kinds of things with your church facilities and will stir politics to get their way.
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Soon as I saw the word volunteer I knew how this would end.
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Sometimes the problem isn't stepping forward it's not stepping out of sight fast enough.
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WAMT ? An Apple update. Now I get three white rectangles on my iPad Mac mail page , when opening my Email box. Google sometimes won't show and when it does it has 2026 'dancing' on it. Maybe the update is why my options box.on TP..eg B i U - etc is 'dead' ..greyed out. These updates are suppose to 'fix' glitches not cause them.
Grrrrr..,!!!
Grrrrr..,!!!
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My non Apple kit sometimes has a glitch after an update but just sometimes they go away with the next. Lets be positive and hope yours does too
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Know what you mean they made some things worse and nonsensical
I don’t even try to use the net on my phone now , dreading when my ipad wants to update
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Argh, I made an annoying rookie mistake made all the more annoying because I've had to deal with it before in this house, so I should have remembered to check. I bought a nice copper effect pendant ceiling light for the living room. Installed and wired it up last night and everything works fine.
This morning I confirmed my concern. A pretty easy one to guess, but here's a hint: my house was built long before 1966. What do you reckon I forgot to check on the packaging?
This morning I confirmed my concern. A pretty easy one to guess, but here's a hint: my house was built long before 1966. What do you reckon I forgot to check on the packaging?
Argh, I made an annoying rookie mistake made all the more annoying because I've had to deal with it before in this house, so I should have remembered to check. I bought a nice copper effect pendant ceiling light for the living room. Installed and wired it up last night and everything works fine.
This morning I confirmed my concern. A pretty easy one to guess, but here's a hint: my house was built long before 1966. What do you reckon I forgot to check on the packaging?
Earthing situation?
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That's the one! I forgot to check for the double squares on the packaging to show that it's double insulated and can't find anything online. I'll need to fish it out of the cardboard bin because my voltage detector is reading voltage from the metal shade, although they can be super sensitive because it's also reading voltage on a glass table lamp.
One point of confusion is that I have a brand new and very sensitive consumer unit which tripped when powering on a wall switch where a screw had previously been screwed through the wire further down (old consumer unit wasn't sensitive enough to detect it and the screw was live!!). But the new consumer unit isn't tripping when switching on this ceiling light, so I'm wondering if it's a false reading from the detector.
If I find the box and there's no double square or comment that it's double insulated then I'll need to confirm with a multimeter. Will need to extend an earth from somewhere though. Will call out an electrician just to be safe, although it would be cheaper to change the light - but the wife likes it.
EDIT: there's nothing on the packaging to indicate that it's double insulated, so I'll be removing it and already ordered a new Class 2. I'll need to remember not to make that mistake again.
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Yep, I remember coming back from Switzerland a few years ago, they had a lot of snow and everything carried on as normal, trains running exactly to the minute etc
When we came back home and had a small amount of snow everything had ground to a halt
