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A rare sight. A policeman who's not daft.😂

Some people you can look at and just know they’re a decent person. He was one.

Lovely bloke. I signed an online petition recently about naming one of the football stands after Kevin Keegan..

A legend here in the north east. RIP KK.

Oh no, my daughter met him when he was taken on for Fulham Football Club. She said he was really nice.

As a lifelong non-football fan, this is one of the few names I know from back in the day. A bit of a legend.

RIP, another legend left us, it seems we are losing one every other day at the moment.

Great player and forever in my heart for trying to lay out Bremner in the Charity Shield back in 1974. After which, he should never had have to buy his own drinks ever again.

Oh my goodness! I'll send Mr Tom to remove it at once!!! 🤣 Won't be funny if the roof trusses did catch fire though. I wonder if it could happen? Probably would need a spark although mice can provide that when the little monsters chew wiring though. 🤔

No wood in your roof space Kat? Wood gets extremely dry up there.

Had a couple burning near us for the last couple of weeks, thought they'd managed to control one of them but the main road (A628) through the village as been closed all weekend.

There have been two fires locally which have started in roof spaces. Waiting for the fire investigation team to tell us the cause. Sneaking feeling that one house had solar panels & a Tesla wall. That one burnt across his neighbours roof too. The heat trapped in roof spaces is unbelievable, our loft hatch keeps falling open as the catch softens with the heat. (hard hat area!!! I'm leaving a door open which actually catches the thing mid drop!) Probably just as well that it does although I don't think there's anything up there which could spontaneously combust!🙏

Fire brought under control in the late evening, with some attending during the night to monitor for further outbreaks. An area 600x200 metres was destroyed.

I will pray for rain for you. Terrifying thing to witness.

Stay safe, CS.

Currently 8 appliances on scene. An aerial shot shows it quite near to the A22.

They are so scary. 1976, just a few weeks after my wedding, Mum rang me and said would we come and take Nan back to our place - there was a fire that was getting close, just two fields away, and they may have to evacuate in a hurry. Luckily the fire brigade got it under control in time. We had one here last week, blowing from the east, and I ended up calling in on the oldest neighbours to make sure they were aware and could leave quickly if they had to, but again the fire brigade controlled it. Where would we be without them?

I hope that nobody gets hurt or loses their home to it and that they get it under control soon.

Choc, I hope that nobody you know and care about are impacted by it.

I do want to visit again, when I'm feeling up to it. Though I am not sure that it's a good idea to get a person with no training experience involved in training. But maybe I could just follow Beth's lead and as long as I say the same commands and do the same actions, it might be OK.

Maybe you need to visit Beth again and help her out Em!

Bless him. He just needs more socialising and training at the same time, that's all. I wonder how that would be done ... maybe praising him for looking/focusing on you instead of another dog? I've never trained a puppy before. I've only ever been around already trained dogs.

Lady friend had an old sly collie & a lab when I first met her, the collie would be good as long as someone watched him, she had a big coffee table with our dinners on plates on it , & one was soon emptied as soon as she asked me to come & get something from the kitchen. He sat there with guilty looks as if to say "Wasn't me", but we all knew who it was that swiped the chunk of meat

Come to think of it - I've a cold can of cider & another of something else since before xmas,, & a bottle of mandarin champagne all in my fridge, it's been so hot today I couldn't be bothered getting it .... maybe tomorrow.

Puppy tails update:

Funny you should say that, Nick. After lunch I decided to wander over to the postbox, outside the pub, about a quarter of a mile away. I had a couple of printer cartridges in a freepost envelope to send back to Canon, and as it wasn’t too hot I thought the dogs could come too. All went OK until we reached the road - they had forgotten all about sitting on command - totally ignored me, so we turned round, approached again and this time they sat. They were not keen on the traffic whizzing past on the bend but eventuallyI got them to sit until told to cross, only to find that the flaming cartridges were too big to go in the postbox opening - it’s a little old post-hung box, probably a Victorian one, though I didn’t look. Anyway, we were there, it was a quiet day, the boys were being good so I took them into the pub “for a socialising exercise “ as I told the bar staff. I had a half of cider, the boys and Indi got a fuss from the guys sitting at the next table, then they settled next to the table. They were very good, apart from when a border collie came in and went past a bit close to us - Storm leapt in front of Shadow and Indi to protect them, realised he wasn’t needed (the collie hadn’t noticed him) and flopped down again. I told the dog trainer on Saturday that this was something I would have to work on in classes - Storm has to learn not to take it on himself to be chief defender unless he is told to. It’s a very short step from protective to aggressive, and I am not letting him go down that route ! He has a lovely nature now, but obviously sees himself as ‘man of the house’ and takes himself very seriously! Anyway, one half of cider @ £3.45 later (I could have bought a pack of 4 tins of a pint each for about £4.50 in Tesco, but never mind) we headed back home and they all fell asleep for half an hour, which seemed a good idea, so I joined them.

The cartridges are now in the ‘forest postbox’ hung on my gate in a plastic bag, for postie to collect next time he calls.

Alcohol isn't a good idea in this weather but it is the drink of choice for some. I hope he doesn't get a liking for it or you'll be dragging him out of the pub for his dinner.

He was in the garden yesterday with an empty cider vinegar bottle - glass! Chewing the lid, until I grabbed it. I wondered how the Yankee Candle had got out there last week - it’s ancient, only used for power cuts, but it shouldn’t have been outside, either.

Storm will soon be in a tea cup….🤣

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