Thanks Peter, that's delightful, and I love the avatar.
You brought back many memories of the 7 who have been part of my life, all but the first of which happily accompanied me wandering in the bush. Labrador noses can be embarrassing at times though - it's hard to forget the time when one of them found some human excrement to roll in

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Said goodbye to the last one over 2 years ago; can't take the ones I occasionally borrow too far afield, but one of these days hope there'll be another 1 or 2 to go bush with.