Message from Andy Whale earlier. The teenage Bolt Thrower fan in me is all chuffed.

Good to see Jeremy Corbyn's terrorist sympathies outed in the papers. Hopefully he will stay on after the coming defeat and plunge the Labour party into even further obscurity.

My neighbour had one of his dogs put down.

MEAT IS MURDER

Oh fuck off, Rob. How is that a cheery thought?

Oh boo fucking hoo. I wouldn't have any opinion on my neighbour's pets and their antisocial and potentially health-damaging habits if they didn't infringe on my life.

He still has 3 more of the revolting pests left unfortunately. Bring on the day when all the little fuckers are dead and gone.

Being a bit of a twat there, to be fair.

Owning 4 dogs and letting them shit everywhere is "being a bit of a twat". Well, 3 now.

Hardly the dogs' faults and it doesn't justify putting one down. Or taking delight in it.

Unfortunately it's not enough of a reason to put one down, no. Apparently it was put down because it was old and deaf. But having less shit, noise and aggression around the place is definitely justification for delight - stop trying to guilt me about it.

Are they on your property, making a mess there? Did that guy live there with his dogs before you moved in?

Well, the dead one isn't - that's for sure. I did catch one in the garden once. I chased it with a stick. It was trying to repeatedly charge through a wire fence to get out and kept getting its head stuck in one of the gaps.

edit: I've just seen your added question there. Let me ask you this - what do you suggest? You don;t like that Im happy that a nuisance is gone - fine. But what is someone supposed to do? You have potentially harmful animals roaming around, they're spreading shit which is disgusting and also potentially harmful, and they're also noisy. But this gets a special pass because of the type of animal they are and someone somewhere likes them and gives them a name? Fuck that. Like I said, none of this would be my affair if it didn't have to be.

You didn't say that they were roaming around and if they're in your garden, then of course it's out of order and their owner needs to be brought to task (I'm assuming you complained?). But again, if they were there before you and you chose to live there, well it's a case of tough shit, isn't it?

I actually think you're serious. But this is the kind of ignorance that leads to the problem in the first place. Either the owner takes responsibility for them or someone else has to. Simple. Local farmers shoot them or they get run over or they attack people and get put down, etc. Now that's tough shit.

100% serious, yes. And as you've avoided the question, I'm assuming that that's the case.

I'm not here to answer your questions, you loon.

Indeed.

My garden is looking relatively respectable, I'm back to getting proper exercise, I've secured further work placement in a community hospital which, fingers crossed, may lead to a full time position next year, and I've just won a tablet. Wahey!

Good times.

Bonus payment day, trying to keep my mind off that fact that a third of it has gone on tax and national insurance.