Tell it like it is

Tell it like it is

Under The Counter has no interest in dogs, greyhounds excepted, but he is polite. So he had the decency to feign interest when his neighbour was showing off their new pup, an adorable labradoodle. “What’s a labradoodle?” inquired the Auld Boy. On discovering that the £1,000 bundle of fur trying to eat his trousers was a cross between a labrador and a poodle, UTC brought the conversation to a swift conclusion with a gruff, “We called them mongrel…