<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">I understand Rolph and Clara have been on my laptop exaggerating our circumstances, so I just want to set the record straight.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">We are not starving. They will not have to go out to work. I have known this redundancy was coming for a long, long time and had made provision.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">I was disappointed not to get the job, but I did get very positive feedback, which was encouraging and I tell myself I didn't get it because there is something better in my future.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">My brother is a sheep farmer who has about four excellent working dogs and four more in training. Because of our different lifestyles, he has never quite understood my love of Rolph who, as Droolers will know, has always expended his intelligence and energy on being a naughty thief and running rings round his humans. Having said that, Richard and his family are always the first to enjoy and repeat "Rolph stories" and I know, despite what he says, he is very fond of my bad boy.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">I will now be hiding my laptop.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">Drool to all who need it, whether for themselves, their hounds or their families. There is a lot of pain in the world right now.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr">Sally, with Rolph and Clara, UK</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1465799276307_16912" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>