I can't really explain the Cocker thing except to say that historically they were very, very over-bred just after one won the Westminster dog show 2 years in a row. It ruined the breed. Get a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel instead.
I have seriously been thinking about a pet lately, but the terms of my lease don't allow it :( It's one more thing which has to wait for the damn dissertation.
Now she has to move to another city, where she will live alone (she had a flatmate here). She has been commuting 150 km per day because she hasn't found yet a place which means all her other requirements and is close enough to her new workplace that she can go to the house in the lunch break so the dog won't spend 8 hours at once alone. (The dog is grown up now, not a puppy any more - back then they wouldn't leave it alone ever).
@ElendilTheTall I wish I knew it. Once I get all results done, I can start writing it up. But the problem is that I'm at a very frustrating stage. I get something together, go to my supervisor. She says "not good, start over". Rinse, repeat. About 6-8 weeks per iteration.
But she is somehow incapable of telling me that my ideas are not good enough for her, she requires to see a result before saying it's not good enough.
If everything goes well, I'll have the text written and submitted by April. After that I will still need to defend it in an oral exam, but I will have the time to look for a new job then. And with a new job, I can move into a bigger flat.
@ElendilTheTall I don't know. If marrying a billionaire requires me acquiring the habits and duties of a trophy wife, it's too high a price for the privilege of spending a few millions during the few years the marriage lasts. May also leave me with unhealthy spending habits for afterwards.
@Jolenealaska haha, I just read your joke. I somehow overlooked it when you posted it, and now I saw the large picture. But I'm afraid I don't know dog races that well. I even don't know what all of the races mentioned look like, even less their character.
@ElendilTheTall afghan is a name I have heard, but don't know what it looks like. I've never heard of shi-tzu or malemute, or a springer spaniel. And I don't know what a mastiff looks like either.
I have always imagined that the trethupe dogs are the ones who bite the most
I don't know the word for Trethupe in English
A "Hupe" is the thing which was once used for making a signal when you are on a bicycle, before you had bells. Now clowns use it. You press it and it makes a shrill tone.
The only time I have met a malamute was while I was walking in the woods, turned a corner and there he was, growling, head down - for all intents and purposes a goddamn wolf in the middle of a British forest
owner trots up "you've just scared him, that's all"
I scared him?!
naturally, being British, I apologised and moved on
The "wet" of the meal comes from the rice, not the curry.
Then tonight I was meeting with a client, so my mother baked sweet potato, regular potato, red bell pepper, carrots, and onions, to serve on the leftover rice and lentils.
@BESW Interesting. I don't know much about population density in Guam, I would have imagined it like a place with few people and enough land for them to have lots of agriculture.
You get family farms and "ranches" in the south, and everyone who has any arable land--even just their yard--grows something to eat or keeps a few chickens or pigs.
But the farmers who are commercially viable are growing crops, not raising animals for slaughter.
yeah...I'm thinking of cooking for CN. He loves mushrooms, so he should like truffles. I have .45 ounce of black truffle, so not enough to make huge bowls.
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