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He also comments on Mr Drakeford's appearance at a Remembrance Day event, calling him a "scruffy old university lecturer with dirty shoes".

"The litter was quite terrible, but they just weren't used to it, so it was almost like it was my fault that the place looked so scruffy."

It now searches for a new identity, as its residents wake up to the post-Assad reality and the thousands of scruffy, bearded militants who have — seemingly overnight — sprouted at every major intersection and state institution.

"Yet the place looks scruffy and untidy and gets worse year after year, all while FirstPort keep putting their charges up," she added.

That’s why watching swearing Aussies fall in love while they care for a scruffy pup with wheel-aided hind legs is the soothing balm our brains need right now.