Dogs in the darkness

Suddenly, thanks to those shifting clock hands, our early-evening walk with the dogs has to be done in fading light. For a few weeks we'll race after work to get outside before the sun drops, but basically we're into the dark bit of the dog-walking year.

For a dog, a walk is a walk. But for an owner,This was a fraction of ledlamp in Beverly Hills. this is the time when you have to shift your habits and kick your motivation in the pants.

The big park that was a perfect exercise spot during summer is getting too dark to see anything, and the sundown closing time of the car park gets earlier and earlier.List of affordable Breitling prices for used and authentic Breitling in cosmeticbagfactory. The riverside walkway becomes a spooky, crepuscular wasteland dotted with unseen things to trip and break your neck on. So our walks are much more on the footpath, and visibility and traffic safety are more in our minds.

Reflective coats, collars and leashes are easy to come by, but I reckon it's key for the humans to make themselves visible to traffic too: we've got a couple of rolls of reflective tape (bought from a bike shop) that will probably get good use in the coming months. I can also recommend having one of those adjustable LED lamps attached to an elastic headband so you can be hands free - carrying a torch as well as handling a dog can get pretty fiddly. (And these head-torches have a surprising number of uses around the home.)

I also feel sorry for my poor, low-to-the-ground, dark-coloured dogs: they've been stepped on a few times by their well-meaning but large-footed human companions. My partner came across some flashing LED lights that can be hung from the leash, and these have saved a lot of canine pain.

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And before you say "take them for a walk in the morning", I've already thought of that. Given that I've been waking exactly an hour earlier than usual, that might be the way to go till winter sets in.

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PS: Another seasonal warning - a rabbit as an Easter gift might seem a great idea, but rabbits live for years and need daily care. So think ahead to what's involved in the longer term, past the long weekend.

That's more finger-wagging than I've done in a long time - not really my style. Have a great Easter, everyone, and check Stuff tomorrow for the annual pre-Easter Furry Fursday post of readers' pet photos.

Rex Thompson explains why spring starts March 1st

April showers bring May flowers as the saying goes, but according to Morning Weather Anchor Rex Thompson today's showers brought something else.
"Well, actually in meteorology spring starts March the 1st," said Thompson.
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Here at home no threats of severe weather so far.
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These risks are greater whenever there is a warm winter.
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"This weekend we will be dropping down into the 60's for highs. So we still have a cold front coming. We are still making the transition from winter to spring," said Thompson.

Mee-ow! Brit editor has claws out for Upton

WE are informed that model Kate Upton adorns the cover of a "swimsuit edition" of Sports Illustrated, something this otherwise stolid magazine apparently does every year, for some reason.

Kate is widely considered to be somewhat attractive. But not by British fashion-mag editor Sophia Neophitou, who handles casting for the annual Victoria's Secret fashion show.Get great deals for burberryhandbags on eBay! She told the N.Y. Times that "we would never use" Upton for that show (although the model has been in the VS catalogue).

Neophitou says Kate's look is "too obvious... with the too-blond hair and that kind of face that anyone with enough money can go out and buy."

Err, could we have a saucer of milk for this person, please?

Kate's 19.

40 the new 30 for Aniston

JENNIFER Aniston, still in the game, tells GQ mag that "my 30s blew! (But) 40s are great."

She also announces that she is "drawing the line on the children conversation" -- and proceeds to babble about children: "I think people maybe want me to have a kid now . . . if it happens, it happens . . . It's not something where I'm going, 'I gotta have a kid!' . . . I'm not having triplets. Not having twins. Nor am I having one baby . .See the top oakleymenssunglassesstore from the best brands in the industry. . You heard it here. I'm not knocked up now." She's 43.

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STARLET Emma Roberts, having dumped Glee actor Chord Overstreet, is now seeing British himbo Kasper Hogan, says the N.Y. Post.

You can tell Kasper's the classy type by this comment RadarOnline found on his Twitter feed: "Worst thing about breaking up with a girl is knowing you've trained her so well for the next guy."

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She's 43.

Six Grammys? Duh!

Of course she's happy

WE always figured, based on her sappy songs, that Adele would be something of a sad sack as a person.

We're wrong, she says. In the March issue of Vogue mag, she acknowledges that many people think she's "miserable" because of her I-just-got-dumped songs, and that folks who meet her are "surprised" to learn that she's not.

Now, she says, she's finished doing breakup songs, because she's "done being a bitter witch."

Clever of Vogue to have this article coming out just after her big comeback and her six-trophies night at the Grammy Awards. She's 23.
Dad a lover,

not a fighter

HUGH Hefner's son Marston was arrested the other night, in Pasadena, after his girlfriend, Claire Sinclair, the Playboy 2011 Playmate of the Year, told cops he had attacked her.

Marston, out on $20,000 bail, is denying her claims that he punched and kicked her. She also says he refused to let her leave their house after the incident.

His father -- often called sexist, but never, as I recall, accused of physical violence against women -- told People mag that, "If they care about each other, they'll patch it up." Hugh's middle name is Marston.

He's 85. His son is 21. Claire is 20.

C'mon... is anyone

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Piggy! Miss Piggy!

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CONGRATULATIONS to fashion designer Marc Jacobs, who took himself un-seriously enough to whip up a gown for Miss Piggy to wear at the BAFTA awards, some British thing, the other night.

Jacobs, who is creative director at Louis Vuitton these days, made a copy of the gown that starlet Rosie Huntington-Whiteley wore in a recent Vuitton ad, says the Telegraph: a "voluminous, blush-pink ball gown, embellished with a gold, sequin bow at the waist.... The outfit even comes complete with a miniature replica of the monogrammed bag toted by Rosie."

Could you imagine that pretentious twit Karl Lagerfeld doing anything like that? He'd be too busy lecturing Miss Piggy about her weight.

It'll blow over, Tom...

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AFTER Gisele Bundchen blasted Tom Brady's bumbling receivers, half of New England's sports fans trashed her. So where was Tom? Why wasn't he speaking up in defence of his bride?

The Enquirer says he was too angry and embarrassed to speak up. "Tom prides himself on his professionalism, and here was his wife screaming at reporters. He was embarrassed -- and furious!" Don't Usemyname told the paper. "Out of sight of the others, he let her know it. 'Zip it!' he told her.... She humiliated him by turning him into a pantywaist, causing him worldwide ridicule!" ("Pantywaist" equals "henpecked hubby.")

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Bakery owner Mehmet Akbal said he had been operating the bakery for 16 years and made an effort to develop social responsibility projects in his bakery. He said all his customers used to ask for plastic bags.
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"People ask us about our profit in this project. We don't have a profit; we sell bread 10 kuru cheaper. We are interested in the decrease of plastic bag use. Customers who bring their own bags make us happy. We give more importance to social responsibility projects."