You are sort of right ... 5 Generations ago a Labrador was crossed with a poodle, since then they've all been LABRADOODLES!!!
Thanks Xavier for your comments. If you're interested I could email you a piccy of him. His coat is quite low maintenance really. He gets a little matted around his elbows but is good apart from that. Until the lawn died and the prickles came, we had no problems at all.