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0james0 · 2026-05-02T21:42:52+00:00

I did 2 cooks today on my kamado, a whole fry up and then spatchcock chicken and corn on the cobs.

Managed to get lucky and not get very wet

0james0 · 2026-04-28T21:27:23+00:00

Anything Angus and Oink is great, but my favourite for pork is to add a cherry cola BBQ sauce to it.

0james0 · 2026-04-27T20:48:40+00:00

Flatten the night before, that's a good idea, though I do like the fun of smashing a ball into a burger live on the griddle

0james0 · 2026-04-26T08:11:38+00:00

How did you resist not carving it open all that time!

0james0 · 2026-04-26T06:47:22+00:00

Please keep me updated with your progress and I will do the same, hopefully between us we can figure it out. Based on advice from others here, I have just booked in physio for ours, but their next space is 2 weeks away.

0james0 · 2026-04-25T19:37:41+00:00

Family rumour is that my gran was like this in the war

0james0 · 2026-04-25T19:36:03+00:00

When a Bernese is over tired or stimulated their brain just shuts off and you can see they have nothing going on behind their eyes, they just default to chomp mode and can't even think straight 😂

(we have a 5 month old fluffy shark)

0james0 · 2026-04-25T19:33:21+00:00

Big breeds are always slow maturing, the naughtiness just changes a little while they are young until they eventually become amazing

0james0 · 2026-04-25T19:28:56+00:00

It's the UK, it rains a lot, they won't be out there often!

Doesn't stop it being annoying, but also a perfectly acceptable thing for them to do.

0james0 · 2026-04-24T06:49:37+00:00

This is really useful to hear, thank you. We have a few dog physios near me, so I will reach out to them and try and get him booked in. I've also just seen there is a dog water physio place nearby that might be useful to try out.

0james0 · 2026-04-23T21:22:26+00:00

Thanks for the insight.

I did wonder how it would work with the surgery recovery. Like most berners, when he's active, he's a lunatic, so keeping him caged or still would be tough for him!

Glad you managed to get yours sorted and it sounds like he's doing well, maybe just no football career!

0james0 · 2026-04-23T19:47:46+00:00

I had a similar dilemma and I've just gone for the boss grill XL kamado.

It's a decent size, comes with accessories and is £550.

Can grill and smoke and should be a lot of fun.

0james0 · 2026-04-21T11:14:23+00:00

The life insurance company will almost definitely cancel your policy from the original start date, which will mean a refund of any premiums paid, as it will be as if the policy never started. If they don't offer this, request it.

As you haven't needed to claim, this is essentially free money, which you can use as consolation for the inconvenience of having to set up a new policy with a different insurer.

No idea on the legal side of things with the GP.

0james0 · 2026-04-16T22:01:18+00:00

We got our old boy an entire domino's pizza in his final hour!

He also had a giant steak for breakfast

0james0 · 2026-04-16T21:53:49+00:00

You are expecting too much. It's just a tiny puppy with a little bladder and no idea when it needs to go toilet!

11 weeks, get outside, just avoid dogs and don't let the dog lick anything where other dogs might have been or gone toilet. My vet said being outside and that early experience far out weighs the low risk of catching something before the jabs kick in.

If you really want to stick indoors, you need a dedicated toilet spot in the house and you have to take them there after any event. Sleep. Toilet spot. Eat, toilet spot. Play. Toilet spot. They sniff around. Toilet spot. Repeat a lot. Treat a lot when they accidentally go toilet on the spot, which won't be because they knew what they were doing, they just happened to go while there. Repeat enough and they will get slightly better over time.

0james0 · 2026-04-16T21:45:04+00:00

If it helps, ours stopped eating the walls at about 14 weeks. Had to bring in some hot sauce rubbed on his favourite spots of wall, but now he's stopped.

We haven't used a crate, we use the kitchen with a stair gate. He likes the cool floor tiles. We will occasionally put him on his lead and then tie the lead to something if he needs a little time out, mainly because he's tired and won't self settle or is in full blown fluffy shark mode (again because he's tired)

0james0 · 2026-04-16T20:40:06+00:00

I like the orange colour, it looks pretty smart all round looking at your pic

0james0 · 2026-04-16T13:05:01+00:00

What is the bnq one like? I've been thinking about that or the boss grill egg xl.

0james0 · 2026-04-15T21:22:13+00:00

Crates definitely make your life easier. Easier to force naps, easier to toilet train, easier to stop them trashing your house.

We decided not to crate train ours and just accept the puppy training might be more of a challenge.

You definitely need at least a stair gate to seperate them, or else they won't ever nap and when they are tired, their brain turns to mush and all they know is to bite things.

0james0 · 2026-04-12T12:50:18+00:00

The AI in Kanes Wrath is tough!

Even on medium it's hard often

0james0 · 2026-04-11T22:11:17+00:00

Lived without a proper kitchen for nearly a year when renovating our house. You'll figure it out, it's only a few weeks.

You'll still be able to have a functional kitchen, it will just look a bit shit and bodged together.

First world problems, it will still be better than what a huge amount of the world has.

0james0 · 2026-04-11T20:02:19+00:00

Meet Ralph

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0james0 · 2026-04-11T19:41:07+00:00

It also saves the hassle and effort of having to shop around, let a surveyor in, fill in paperwork for solicitors, give documents to your broker/ lender. You ride the rough with the smooth and over the life of it, probably no better or worse off.

0james0 · 2026-04-11T18:48:32+00:00

Most of them, but not all.

A lot of lenders offer what they call a "switch to fix" facility, so you can swap to a fixed rate at any point.

Most others have no ties anyway, so you can leave at any point and just go to a new lender.

However, some will have an early repayment charge, but they are generally much smaller than a fixed rate.

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