Rather pay than give in

Ah, that explains it...had really thought it was a white patch of hair ( feathers!?)

lemongrove

*Maw*...why have you sewn a white cotton patch onto poor
Hattie??

Poor girl had to have a canine Brazilian, ie her tummy shaved for an ultrasound back in the Autumn (fears of kidney cancer) which fortunately proved clear. Her fur has grown back now - or as Flynn asked at the time “When are her feathers going to grow back, Granny?”
I was amused when we got her to learn that her kennel name in deepest Tipperary had been “Snowdrop”

I happen to know growstuff that that particular poster is Manchester born and bred and has lived there all her life. She has just had the misfortune to be stranded in Spain, due to COVID lockdown, since March of this year. She would have exactly the same access to information, first hand or not, as any other poster who happens to be currently living in another country, either by choice or circumstance.
And as for and probably from a selected group of like-minded people or the media, isn't that how most of us are accessing the news at the moment? Aren't most of us, especially those living overseas, relying on "the media" to provide us with the news, seeing as how we're pretty much confined to barracks? I'm afraid you're post has confirmed my suspicions.

lemongrove

? Did he get the wild boar through the cat flap? What a brave moggy though, amazing, he must be very territorial, some cats are more than others.Is he called Asterix?

That would have suited him!
No, he is called Louis Cat-orze (14)

Aw that's very touching.
Rainbow Bridge.

? Did he get the wild boar through the cat flap? What a brave moggy though, amazing, he must be very territorial, some cats are more than others.Is he called Asterix?

Here he is! My lovely Larry. We got him from a rescue place and he was in such a mess but a couple of days with us and he being his beautiful self.

Lasted until he was 15

Very sad day when we had to say goodbye. This is his last photo with me. He had got to the stage where is life had no quality. Back legs had given up and we knew we had to say farewell

lemongrove

Wow, he’s a good sized cat Elliane ?

He was a lot bigger in his heyday lemon. He is 15 in that photo.
I kid you not, he saw off wild boar in France. When he moved to London he took on the urban foxes and won!

I can't understand why Biba keeps banging on about the EU, Switzerland isn't in the EU.

Everything will be fine eventually. I voted remain but I respect the decision of my fellow country persons that voted to leave, so be it, let's just brace ourselves and get on with it.

Hola, como estas?

Lovely pup, MawBe!

We had a beautiful greyhound. He lived to be 15 which was pretty good going. Most gentle dog I've ever owned

PS. That thread had nothing at all to do with Brexit.

growstuff

Oh good! Is it safe in here now? Has the bullying stopped?

Wir tun unser Bestes growstuff.

Wow, he’s a good sized cat Elliane ?

Chewbacca

What I can't get my head around is the double standards of who can, and who can't, post on events in the UK. Earlier this week, on a different thread, one poster (who lives in the UK but is currently trapped in another EU country due to COVID lockdown) was actually challenged as to whether she had the right to comment on current events in her home town because she isn't actually living there. That poster is a self admitted Brexit voter. Is it that that makes the difference?

Ahem! I didn't question the right. I questioned how that poster knew from first-hand experience, when her knowledge of the situation being discussed could only have been second-hand - and probably from a selected group of like-minded people or the media.

However, people seemed to enjoy misinterpreting what I'd written and piling in, so I left them to it.

Strange isn’t it? We think them lucky, yet they are the least liked colour for people to want to re-home.I think them rather beautiful, but then I like black dogs too, particularly black labradors.
The association with witches accounts for them being unpopular, so having one cross your path ( and thinking it lucky) is possibly because it’s going away from you?
I expect a poster will be along shortly who has googled the reasons and can tell us.

Oh good! Is it safe in here now? Has the bullying stopped?

One of my Frenchboys. The tattoo is in his left ear which also has a chunk bitten off it by his frère méchant.

lemongrove

Black cats are the least popular colour here too, charities always have more than they can home.
Strangely though, here they are considered lucky ( if one crosses your path) whereas in Italy ( and some other countries) it’s considered very unlucky!

So why do we give good luck black cat horseshoes when brides get married?

Maw...why have you sewn a white cotton patch onto poor
Hattie??

Black cats are the least popular colour here too, charities always have more than they can home.
Strangely though, here they are considered lucky ( if one crosses your path) whereas in Italy ( and some other countries) it’s considered very unlucky!

Noire - Ellianne - big, beautiful and black!

Hattie est de quelle couleur MawBe?
Our French cats are black, and you can hardly read their tattoos.
Black cats are unlucky in France, once again our two nations can't agree. Our black brothers were about to be destroyed by the SPA because no one wanted them.

I'm with Biba on this. She doesn't deserve the response she's been getting from some of you.

We moved to France about 12 years ago really so that we could have a project and build own home, which we have done. For many years I thought we would at some time return to England but now I'm not sure that I want to. I think all of our friends in England are Remainers and, like the rest have different attitudes to what is now happening. Some think that they have to make the best of it, some are angry and some are very depressed. They all hate the nastiness and divisiveness that is happening at the moment.

I sincerely hope that the worst isn't going to happen but fear it will.

On a lighter note, since we've been here I make a lot of marmalade. We're just finishing a batch my OH made with Bergamots a few weeks ago. Soon the Italian equivalent of Seville oranges will be in the shops plus Cedrat, which are like enormous lemons and make the best marmalade. I hope that the supplies of Sevilles to the UK will not be held at the ports for too long.

We get plenty of visitors from the EU to England. Almost 25 million Europeans came to the UK in 2019. I don't believe they all just went to Scotland!

There seems to be 3 camps here. Those who are desperate to remain, those who are desperate to leave and the third group who are sat in the middle. Accepting what's going on.

It's not great. I voted Remain.

But I can't change it!

Nobody can.

Being not “bring”