Jazz, you are either very lucky or you're the only one entering the raffle or whatever!
Griff, I wonder what some strong superglue would do to gate hinges.....not that I'm suggesting anything of course.
I'm getting to boiling point re the dog over the road. On Sunday late afternoon I heard a big dog barking, then real screaming and howling as if a dog had been grabbed by another one. I was at the end of the garden and by the time I got to the living room window there was nothing to see, but heard yesterday from a neighbour that the GSD had been outside for once, run over the road to bark at another dog and the screaming was because it was "getting a real leathering" from it's owner. It doesn't bark all the time now...oh, sorry, yes it probably does but he's sound proofed the outhouse it lives in. RSPCA don't want to know, it's got shelter and presumably food and water, doesn't count that it gets no walks, no companionship and no affection. He's a dodgy bloke, he sells cheap fags and tobacco and apparently if you want pretty much anything he can get it, but don't ask where he gets it from. Not the sort I really want to tangle with, but that poor dog's plight is eating away at me.