Delighted all went well.:D Just your black leather fanny-pelmet will do, if you’ve got it handy and don’t need this weekend!!:diablo::diablo:

Actually we won’t as I had forgotten but he has gone back into hospital again for a couple of days.:(

He will, oh, yes, he will….!:D

Indeed.:)

If you are talking about the English language as being a lingua franca as a method of widely understood communicaton then of course you are right. I was the onlooker at a factory in the UK watching a Japanese engineeer and his Italian counterpart trying to make a machine work. Interesting and amusing and they knew what they were doing – at least it appeared so but the language had little to do with the English I am familiar with.

And that is part of the problem. The internet provides everyone, including native English speakers with a sort of global argot English so that native English speakers end up speaking like my Japanese and Italian engineers, with more than a hint of American thrown in.

Broad agreement? Maybe – but I thnk we diverge on a number of specifics.

You don’t know what you are missing. There is a thread running currently about the colour of canine faeces!!:D

Ah – and in the sixties the relationship between public and police, Special or otherwise, was quite different.

Well done and good luck!! I bet you’ll make the best of it.:)

“You may also see white stools when a dog has been fed raw bones”

So perhaps it’s more tinned food and less fresh meat and bones from the friendly butcher…..:)