Thanks ANN, your observations never fail to amuse. 😂🥰👍

I was going to say, if there are lots of axe marks on it, it's been hacked.

Panic is over! Son in law discovered the problem and solved it.

Thanks Octo. Well protected thanks, as much as one can these days.

I hope you have all the necessary computer protection to minimise any damage.

Seems like it has. Changed all the relevant passwords, notified the bank etc. Son in law may sort it but if not, know someone who can.

So do I.

I also hope it hasn't.

I hope not.

I switch off

When that happens I turn my screen to landscape and the buttons appear at the top where they are clear of the advert. That's on my mobile. Maybe that would help you.

There are at least 3 other ways of moving around the site.

1) Click the red button beneath the winning postcode to move to the next draw.

2) Click the 3 short horizontal lines in the top right of the page which will offer you a menu to select other pages to move to.

3) Use the dark blue menu lower down the page to move to another page.

Long standing issue I'm afraid. Good luck with getting around it !

This explains how to sort it .....

https://help.pickmypostcode.com/article/163-theres-an-ad-blocking-the-tabs

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Hi Annie most of us are friendly so please start more & join in conversations.

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Well done Beth for coming back on that. I agree with every word.

Lidlicker. If I can rub my children's noses in it if they have an 'accident', then I don't see what harm it can do to puppies.

Can't wait for the replies to that one.😂

When I was young I'd get into trouble from my mother but then when my father came home she'd tell him and I'd often get the belt. Years later she says he was cruel, yet she was a major cause of his 'cruelty' but can't see it. I personally call it discipline even though I was the one on the receiving end. Maybe not always justified but discipline nevertheless.

I saw on the internet recently remote controlled dog collars that can give an audible click ... or even electric shock (Taser) the animal to discipline it - that's going too far IMHO.

Bet the Americans got that from George Orwells book "1984".

No, they got a slap on their bums. They knew exactly what it was for. They were caught in the act, punished on the spot, sent to bed. Discipline is not cruelty - it was not like parents saying ‘Wait til your father gets home’ or beating them with a stick. Animals don’t overthink things - if the pups get too bolshy with Indi, she will give them a quick nip. If my horse’s foals got too pushy with her, or the other horses in the herd, they got a set of teeth in their neck, or a kick. There was no attempt by their mothers to sit them down and explain things, or say ‘don’t do that please’ over and over. They got a warning, then a threat, then a painful punishment, and they learned from it. That is sensible parenting, and that’s what I do with my animals. Sending them to their bed was a way of withdrawing contact from them - they want to be loved (which they are) so withdrawing contact makes them try to please me, instead of constantly seeing how far they can push me. I don’t do it often, but one quick slap is not going to scar them mentally, or physically. If it makes you happy I will promise not to beat them, drag them around by the ears, tie them up in the freezing rain, starve them or do any if the other acts of real cruelty that people commit on animals (not that I would anyway).

I'm going to back Beth as I think she just put them to bed and her hand wasn't at all sore like the puppies bottoms weren't.

I have thought the smacking mentioned in these posts was just a figure of speech rather than literal. However, the mention of Beth's hand being sore seems to disprove of my understanding. I agree with whippy & Yattonian - I certainly don't believe physical violence (including rubbing their noses in accidents) to puppies/dogs makes them understand what they've done wrong.

@whippy - I agree with you. Makes me cringe every time I hear that the puppies have been smacked.

Please don’t smack or hit your dogs. They won’t know what the punishment is for. Only that you’re bringing pain. They won’t associate the deed with the cruelty- yes cruelty.

I was good at digging dens, but any lump of metal like a bomb💣 is game for making a fireplace, roof or door with.

"Dad, why are we emigrating to Australia?"

" Shut up & k eep digging son"

[Wasn't that a Tea Ad with monkeys?]

Growing up in London, I used to try to "dig to China" (did anyody else do that?) on a cleared bombsite down the street where we all played.

I never got very far, which may have been fortunate. A few years later, builders erecting a supermarket on the site found an old German bomb - still live!

Funnily enough, I was thinking of Passchendaele when I saw it!

Earlier in the year we had badgers visit, our back garden resembled the battle of the Somme, craters everywhere!!!

We also have a herd of muntjac nearby, and they have been known to create havoc too...

That brought back memories of my dear departed dog. You know they should be punished, but feel so guilty for doing so. And as you say, those eyes. 😢😢💔

Shyboy, how weird as me and a friend did the same thing when I lived in London and like you didn't get far.

Beth, I know I shouldn't laugh as I can only imagine the mess.

I thought I'd dig to Australia when I was about 8. Only got about a foot deep.

We were all young once ;-)

Ooh, naughty boys. There are testing your patience Beth8it!

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I'm amused thank you.

How long ago did this happen?

Round about last Christmas?

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Did she leave you hanging round like a yoyo ??