The funeral director involved will be the one to speak to. He will have various contacts for humanist officiants in the area and will be able to advice you on the most person who would be best suited to your family.

Why do people who dislike tattoo’s always have to use the “Your not japanese” argument??
Surely a person can be touched and evolve on a personal level whether that be by music tastes, fashion, food whatever.

Do all these naysayers saying you should have a bulldog tattoo all eat english food, wear english clothes, listen to english music etc without ever being influenced by anything further than you council border.
If so you must all be very boring!

Readyreds are perfect and just bags / clothes etc either side to stop them rolling about.
A few fleece blankets are great and can be added or taken away depending on how hot / cold it’s gets. Blanket under ready bed and one in top will prob be fine though.

Not madness at all, both ours were camping by 4 months so no fret really.

Nice warm bath after freeing my nuts off after a cold, wet, muddy walk.

they walk into your shed whilst your working on your bike for no other reason than to drop an air biscuit…

Despite that i’m still glad we have our 5 month old puppy.
The Mrs says he completely changed the dynamics of our family for the better. we have a 4 boy and six year old girl (homosapians)

Do you own a penis?

En-route to the crematorium from Church on a funeral some twunt overtakes and cuts into the cortege in between the hearse and limousines…..
As he overtakes the he promtly gets called the C word and shown the bird…
Fast forward to the crematorium and the priest comes and over and mutters “I think I caought up with the cortege back there”

Don’t worry. I’m already going to Hell.

lmao chimera.
oh yeh!!

nothing built as yet Phil but without weather a shelter from the rain would be a bonus!!

Wood burner might be a good option!
I was thinking of putting benches along the back and sides with storage underneath for logs so this would be a good option…

something like this but smaller…

I have Timmy Mallet in a sweep stake

Depends how much you want it eh!

I was looking at getting a kayak delivered yesterday and clicked on the courier at the top of google.
£397.65 to deliver!! now that is expensive!

clicked on another courier…. £34.99 all in. thank you very much

cheers everyone

cheers Nick

I’d sling it in my estate Teaboy if I wasn’t in Manchester and it wasn’t in Kent…

anyone?

Not sure Samuri, thats why I’m asking the STW collective!

Done

BBBBbzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Cheers for the heads up Helios. Was thinking we were restricted to the garden for the next 4 weeks!

Time to head out and find the doggy friendly areas of this world…

Yeh I know he won’t be able to get out for another 3 weeks.
Got his 8 week injection on Tuesday then it’ll be another 3 weeks before be can get out after his 2nd one.

Luckily we’ve got a big garden so at least he can run around like a loon!

3 days later and were good to go!! Excellent night last night went down without a fuss, I got him up at 3.30 for a wee then came down at 7 to a dry happy pup.
A little whimper when he went back in at 3.30 but that was it.
After two nights of ear plugs it was an awesome feeling.

Blanket over cage, a hot water bottle and ticking clock works wonders!

So 5 days after getting him he’s hopefully house trained (no accidents in 2 days now), happy to spend time chilling in his den, and hopefully now is not a whingy pants when left on his own. Still another three days until he’s 8 weeks, can’t wait to be able to get him out and about!!

Happy boy this morning!

Does make you laugh how they go from a sleepy docile baby to a coiled spring in about 10 seconds.
Luckily we’ve got a massive garden which we got rid of most of the borders so the kids have more grass to go at, so at the mo he’s got about 500 sq ft of grass to play on / eat and a whole lot more to explore.

I’ve wanted a dog for ages but left it until the kids were old enough to not be phased and get involved.
It’s worked out pretty well as I’ve taken this week off work and the mrs will be off with the kids for the the next three weeks. Hopefully within a month we’ll have broken the back of getting him sorted.

Today’s task is to dig out and bin all the bark mulch and replace it with slate chippings. It seems the local cats have been using the border as a giant litter tray and guess who’s discovered all the poo!?!?!

UPDATE: So last night was hard times for him. no more coddling him. wee and poo before he went down and just left him in his bed. He went friggin batty, ear plugs are a god send!!!!
went down at 3am to a dry area and let him out for a quick wee then straiht back to bed. queue battyness again at 3am. Anyway this morning we went down to a calm dog that was still alive (until the neighbiurs get hold of him).

Im laid in bed typing this and heard the mrs take the kids to school before, a little whimper from him but he’s quietened down after a minute so seems to be doing the trick!!!

Nice one Stevie, good fun ain’t it! Mines just 7 weeks so will be nearly 4 weeks before we can get him out!!

Some seriously cute dogs on here.

Cheers for the info guys and pics, keep them coming!!

So I’ve taken a bit of advice and built him his own room. Like above we also have a small kitchen that is freezing so I nipped over to pets at home and bought a run. With a bit of ingenuity, a fair few cable grips, an old buckle belt and some lino I nicked from my mum its come together pretty well. This way he has a bit more room to play, chew, has a toilet area away from his cage / bed. I’ve took the door off the cage so he still has his den.

Ironically now he’s out in the garden he wee’d on the floor once or twice and just wants to eat grass!
One step forward, two steps back eh!

Open pen when we are about…

Closed pen for night time…

And one tired pup in his new bed for the front room after spending the afternoon pouncing on my feet as I tried to put it all together!

Right cheers for info everyone. Pretty much what I was thinking but I think I’d been a bit over the top with the small bladder front. Had though about getting a playpen so will go down this route and have it attached to the cage with it left open. He’s so good on the paper anyway it makes sense at this stage (7 weeks) of night weeing. Ill introduce him to the garden this afto and start taking him out for a wee. It was snowing yesterday and I felt a bit tight! Lol

Phil Im Stockport way, right in the edge of the peak so plenty of fun near by for him.
Was going to do the puppy training as soon as I can.

Cheers guys, really appreciate the input.
I might just leave him in the cage downstairs then and but a training pad at the side of his cage, he good at going on it anyways. Think ill still get up a couple of times in the night to toilet him though for now so its not all to much to soon.

I would let him sleep in the bed so he’s not all lonely without his mum and put some paper out on the landing for his mess for now but then I’m not some kind of inhuman monster like you.

Your right I’m not trying hard enough, ill but some spikes in the cage and maybe plug one side into the mains.

cheers for the info guys, will get on to it straight away.

Cheers guys but Manchester based.
As you thought I mean full removal with only what’s in the attic remaining with new supports and stack on roof.

Realised it would need floor / ceiling extending.
Would it need all the boards coming out and new joists in or would they just be extended in some way?

Might not be worth it if cost was stupid but it really would be massively beneficial both up and down stairs.

I had one from UKPC a few monts back. I have ignored all letters and received 3 in total but nothing more.

In my case I’d have happily gone to court and paid them a reasonable loss of fee.
Baring in mind it was a free car park and overan the allotted time by ten mins as the car broke down and shop was informed.

Yep I give myself a number 1 every month. If you use hair clippers it won’t cut it stupidly short as number one because the hair doesn’t stand proud so it wk t be spikey.

I don’t look like I trim, just like your average Jo but if I didn’t I’d be a monkey very shortly.
In my opinion it looks better and feels more comfortable, especially in the summer.

Oh and the time you take having a trim evey month youll save ten fold getting dry.

Start with a no. 3 and work down to what your happy with.

good stuff, was thinking a golden coin would cut it.

Like the idea of extra for string pulled tooth, think ill plant that seed later 🙂

Out of the loop for a while now so not sure what’s out there. I want pretty much the windows media centre console or alternative that can play movies, watch tv, see pics etc.
I can hook it up to a NAS so storage not an issue and download / burn stuff using my laptop onto the NAS so a web browser isn’t needed.

What it must do is…
– watch tv
– record tv
– do the above without lag or whilst watching HD films.

Can a raspberry Pi do that?
Ideally a dual or quad channel aerial so I can record and watch at the same time.

I like the slickness and ease of use of the windows media centre so something same or similar to that so its family friendly

lol i want to be able to customize!!
and i’ve already got oodles of HDD’s and SSD

Do you want to sell it for £11.56 or NOT sell it for £12.00? You are the seller. That’s your choice….

I’d rather just have the £12 we agreed in the sale thanks. You can send me cash, come collect and give me cash, send me a cheque do what ever takes your fancy.
If you pay by PayPal though its instant and your stuff will be in the post the next day.

People could send me money on a carrier pidgeon if they like, I’m very flexible.
As long as I receive the amount of money agreed in the sale I’m not fussed.

Like wise I always PayPal gift people as don’t expect people to pay a fee for my convenience.

Just good manners ain’t it.

Looks like this one got legs, looking forward to see how it pans out

Donated.

http://www.justgiving.com/Luke-Bradley

haha i’m not the only one who had a surprise then!

Annoyingly its for work and we now have new comps and devices to add into the mix so looks like I’ll have to find an alternative to keep everything in harmony.

I’m just going to cut out the middle (bottom) man and just run an online diary direct on google calenders for the offices now.
bye bye outlook calender, its been nice knowing ya

Cheers peeps, think it’ll be the Humax freesat+ and whatever broadband I can sort.
Infinity might be worth a nosey

Fargo + a zillion.
On road, off road, tour, mtb, road, mudguards with big tyres, more bosses than you can shake a stick at, suspension or rigid forks, variour pannier options, drop bar or sit up and beg position if your back goes and available in Ti if you get a stiffy for it.

awesome, just seen a rainbow jersey on the bay. I’ll buy her that and just tell her to ride faster