De Beauvoir Cycle Gang Strikes Again

The Barbour remark made me laugh. Originally, though, I read "walking labradors" as "waxing labradors" and for one crazed moment my brain conjured a petrifying toff-faced human-hound hybrid with waxed cotton for skin.

I often wax my labrador/Springer Spaniel cross - it gives her a lovely glossy coat and I very rarely have to wash her after walks.