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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Hostafan1 said:
    I've a friend who thought she'd use clippers at home. 
    She started with her Husband, them moved onto her 3 sons. 
    Only once she'd practiced on them, did she attempt the spaniel. 
    Wonderful!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    pansyface said:
    Is it just me or does this sentence from today’s Guardian newspaper seem somewhat hair raising?

    With nearly 11 million cats living in about one in four households, they are Britain’s most popular pet. 

    Do editors no longer edit?

    Can you imagine the amount of **** 11 million cats coming out of every 4th house would create!
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh stoppit! You know the  thread etiquette.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
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    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    pansyface said:
    Is it just me or does this sentence from today’s Guardian newspaper seem somewhat hair raising?

    With nearly 11 million cats living in about one in four households, they are Britain’s most popular pet. 

    Do editors no longer edit?
    So that’s about one cat per 6 million people,  my money would be on the people reducing, not the cats. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Nice to see the Pope coming out with a statement urging 'radical action' on climate change. Apparently this doesn't include him making any radical changes to the Catholic views on contraception though so I guess over population doesn't need tackling.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    wild edges said:
    Nice to see the Pope coming out with a statement urging 'radical action' on climate change. Apparently this doesn't include him making any radical changes to the Catholic views on contraception though so I guess over population doesn't need tackling.
    IMHO religion has been the source of many of the world's problems, but never part of the solution
    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Lyn said:
    So that’s about one cat per 6 million people,  my money would be on the people reducing, not the cats. 
    @Lyn I think pansyface was reading the sentence as written, which suggests that a quarter of UK households each has 11 million cats living in it. There are about 30million households so 7.5 million households (a quarter) x 11 million cats = 82.5million cats in the UK. Or rather more than one each. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    wild edges said:
    Nice to see the Pope coming out with a statement urging 'radical action' on climate change. Apparently this doesn't include him making any radical changes to the Catholic views on contraception though so I guess over population doesn't need tackling.
    Nor is he making any proposed editorial changes to the Bible to suggest that perhaps man doesn't have 'dominion over all the earth' to do with it as he pleases.
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Alan Clark2 in LiverpoolAlan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190
    At least God seems to have changed his mind.

    https://whyevolutionistrue.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/thumbnail_Screen-Shot-2021-10-19-at-9.22.56-PM-1200x670.png
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