Well, the best thing that happened today without doubt was watching video clips of the Davies / Richards family spending the hottest day of the year trying to dig a dog out of a pipe. The poor thing had been yowling all night from the woods and eventually they found it stuck in a drainage pipe several feet underground.
The owner, being a good Breconshire farmer, said to "leave the fuc*kin thing there", but having lived in town too long, they couldn't. After much swearing, Collin mended his old digger and managed to get it to the woods. He dug a hole that would lose a bus and eventually they found the pipe. They finished the digging off by hand, then got some bloke from ten miles away to come with his disc cutter to cut through the pipe.
They are all swearing and cheering as he finally manages to break through the pipe. Then the video swings round to see a muddy black dog running out of the bushes coming to see what all the fuss is about.
Collin swears like I have never heard swearing before and the dog gets a boot up its arse.
I only hope that that bump I felt as I drove out of the farm wasn't significant...
Lorraine Jenkin is an author, journalist and blogger.
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