Is that your goal?

Yeah, so actually I'll run down the history of the publication of these features.

So yeah, initially they had run like a comic strip.

So, you know, your weekly comic strips in your newspapers like The Phantom or Beetle Bailey or something like that.

So these would have appeared weekly next to syndicated strips from like King Features.

And then your story would be continued over a weekly progression.

And they would run for so long until then they were replaced with a new strip.

And here's a question I should have asked right off the bat, but after you've gone through all the work that you've done, what is your fascination with Captain Newfoundland?

And I think the discussion becomes easier and most importantly, the confidence becomes easier too.

Yeah, I mean, our staff is really critical here.

I mean, our technicians, when the patients come in, are used to now asking how patients are doing with their drops in a non-judgmental way.

what issues they're having, how is their dry eye, how are they doing with using their medications and remembering.

And that's huge because it gets the patients thinking about it in between the technician working them up and me seeing them.

And they always come out and kind of complain that they're always giving me different answers.

It's not that you're not doing a good job.

David, what are some common objections you come across and how do you approach them?

A question for you, David, in regards to how does that late pregnancy management directly affect the colostrum quality that's available for those three lambs at birth?

So again, leaning back on some of the British research of many years ago, really.

So both quality and quantity of colostrum are impacted if the animal is losing condition score or if she's in low condition score, right? So the ewes getting close to lambing, she's starting to mobilize her own reserves to do something.

to feed those lambs, et cetera, et cetera.

So if you got using condition score probably less than two and a half, you will be producing maybe 25% less colostrum.

And if you're trying to spread that over three lambs, that's actually really significant.

So that becomes the important bit.

How do I keep body weight on older ewes without growing the lambs too big? I don't typically have the same issues with maternal triplets.

Are you happy with everything so far? Yeah, very

good.

The hard landscaping and the pools and the rock work, that's pretty much all in now.

So it's really planting from now on, a week of solid planting.

And we'll need it because there are an awful lot of plants here.

But thanks to Winterbourne and the students and Darren, of course, himself, we'll get it done.

Has it hindered you at all?

Yes, I mean, we've had some rain, obviously, and I think Thursday is going to be a real rainy day.

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Um, but it's been a really interesting project to do.

I mean, as you know, these gardens, we only have about two and a half weeks to build them.

Uh, it's a big plot, one of the biggest plots ever at the show, uh, with things like one of the largest trees that ever came into the show, which, you know, 40 feet high, uh, ginkgo, ginkgo biloba, which is a fossil tree, and that's what the garden's all about.

It's a journey through time.

So we start 450 million years ago, and you come through a almost like a mine shaft, a dark tunnel, uh, where the sea developed.

All life came from the oceans, basically, and you walk into the Cambrian 450 million years ago when there was just rock and water.

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