Radio4 was talking about fruit picking and the lack of workers - and then went onto to say about some workers being in debt to their travel 'arrangers' as they'd been brought in from Indonesia. What? We have Prati Pitel trying to ship people to Rwanda to stop the 'nasty' human traffickers who make loads of money - and then we seem to be encouraging the same and allowing other traffickers - sorry, travel agents - to make money out of fruit pickers. Whoever thought that bringing people in from Indonesia was a good idea and couldn't see that there may just be a cost involved in bringing them over.
And last night, Panorama had a program on about peddling dubious photos on a platform called Reddit (I never knew what that platform was, although it comes up in searches quite often). Oddly though (and this may be me), the program seemed to be more about filming the presenter in the best light with her hair carefully draped over her shoulder, and with a concerned look on her face. I should have known the production would be odd when it started with the presenter talking about taking selfies.
No point in locals even trying to go to beaches, Packed everywhere, prices up especially to make a summer killing, no parking. The Moors are as bad last time we went out there the cars were parked both sides of the roads, difficult to even drive through. That was when COVID was around.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
I met someone walking their dog today who proudly told me their dog was an "Australian Labradoodle". I looked it up and:
A Labradoodle can be F1, F2, F3, and multi-generation but it will posses
both Labrador and poodle genes. Whereas Australian Labradoodles are all
fifth generation or higher and may possibly have genes from other
breeds.
So isn't that just a mongrel? Giving it a fancy name seems a bit pretentious.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I've always thought Labradoodle was a dreadful name to lumber any dog with. Perhaps adding Australian to it is just a form of nationalism ? Either that or the owner doesn't like the idea of owning a Mongrel - so downmarket
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The Moors are as bad last time we went out there the cars were parked both sides of the roads, difficult to even drive through. That was when COVID was around.
So isn't that just a mongrel? Giving it a fancy name seems a bit pretentious.