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Well, you know Banks is saying that you need a holiday. Is there a holiday just a wee break just to yourself? Are you able to steal a moment away just to have a wee holiday just to yourself? Just a few minutes, or a few hours, or a couple of days away? Couldn't this be how, would that work well? Banks said I was a little busy in the household there, but thanks so much for sharing. He had a good time anyway, that's good. Yeah, weather up and down, it's a little busy, that's just what it is. And he's here, he's coming up to seven, that's great. Coming up to one, so he's a little bit more advanced in the top of his knees than we are. Of course we've got 31 older here, he's now 13 weeks into the real wide world. You know, after all his vaccinations and everything else, it's been fun. It has been, it's been hard work as well, isn't it Banks? And anyway, both myself and Helen, it's just us here looking after one puppy. You've done it with the family and everything else around you. I don't know how you do it Banks, I really don't because we are absolutely knackered. How do you do it with puppy and this and that and others and family? Oh, goodness me, honestly, I'm an admin, student and all. It's back to you from 7 KNO, from KNO UUB. This is Lieutenant 7 KNO, it's Ernie. Yeah, it's hard work, it really is hard work. Yeah, I've always taken, I mean, Jess is going to be a working dog, as you know, Archie's not. Our last lab, Max, still hurts about one. He was that dog, I've had a lot of dogs over the years, he was a working dog. They've all come with me everywhere. Everywhere you can take them, take them. Obviously this time of year it gets more tricky, hot cars and everything else. It's creating that bond and with children obviously it's the family bond as well. Making sure the dog knows its pecking order, which were the Labrador. You know labs, labs rule. You've got to have the cheese tanks, the burro tanks, any food tanks. So if you're cooking, you've got to have their bit. They don't have special awareness. But when they're working labs, I've trained every lab I've had to be a working lab with them that they'll never work. Or whether they will. Same principles, same principles as with toddlers. It's boundaries, understanding how they think, how they work. Jess is headstrong. Absolutely fantastic on his own, taking him out with Archie. It's like I've never trained him at all. They look at each other and try and do their own thing. So it's understanding how your dog works. Yeah, it's tiring. The boys are tiring, the dogs are tiring. Camping is not a holiday when you're a single mum. It is what it is, but I do it for the children. The children and the dogs had an absolute whale of a time. I've got a lot of work to do now with resetting boundaries with Chester. He's looking at me going, what? Say what? Yeah, it's just useful. You do what you do. I teach children and I liken dogs to children. Boundaries, rules, lots and lots of love, lots of rewards. And they respond really well. Back to you, Graham.