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2:29 pm
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Shereen
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Rae Mond said:
honestly, some people! Coming on here bragging about all the stuff they get up to. I don't know. We poor schmucks stuck in offices all day only read in wonder and glower jealously at the screen 
Today I've answered some enquiries, typed up some meeting notes and answered the phone. It's not terribly thrilling, I know 
I've been glaring at screen in between meetings today as I try to tot up all the contractor's timesheets for July so I can do the labour report and see what the project's spent this month. It's a bit slow as they all have to go into the online document management system in a special way first. So I upload a bunch and then when the progress bar is crawling along I pop in here for a read.
I'd far rather be home baking a loaf or out checking up on the bramble patch.
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6:52 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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Toffeeapple
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Suz said:
 to all you folks
There I was, ready to send out the search party… Where have you been, what have you been doing?
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7:40 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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danast
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 This afternoon I have been teaching, yes teaching!!. I am helping a 16 year old Italian boy to try to pass his English exam which he has failed already and needs to pass at the end of the month. So I am working with him while he is here – about a week – for two hours every day.
His main need is grammar skills. Oh boy the names of the tenses are not even all familiar to me, but of course once I looked at it , it was all quite obvious. I had a ball. It was so good to be working with a young person again and I am looking forward to tomorrow. He didn't seem exactly keen to be with me at first, but we worked well together and I think, I hope, he enjoyed it too. Tomorrow we are doing more grammar and some oral comprehension of a passage I have asked him to read. I do hope I am able to help him to pass.
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8:09 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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Danny
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What a lovely and satisfying challenge, Danuta.
Perhaps you can engage Toffeeapple for the odd spot of disciplinary action 
Seriously – very well done and we are hanging on tenterhooks to know the eventual outcome.
Just being nosey, but how did you find that opportunity?
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8:25 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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Danny
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An update on the new online shop (not Fiona's offerings):
It is still in its infancy and the appearance is pretty carp.
But I would welcome any comments about the range of products that it should “stock”.
Please do bear in mind that the vast majority of the site’s visitors arrive here searching for recipes of one kind or another. Therefore, cooking related types of product should fare the best.
The categories in the right hand panel are my first stab at it. Click on a category and the sub-categories appear but the layout is crummy and it will take some more work to get it properly sorted.
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9:58 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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Shereen
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I'm impressed by the range of circular saws offered under the Kitchen listings. They might be enough to get G interested in cooking. 
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10:07 pm
Tue 3-Aug-10
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danast
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Danny said:
What a lovely and satisfying challenge, Danuta.
Perhaps you can engage Toffeeapple for the odd spot of disciplinary action
Seriously – very well done and we are hanging on tenterhooks to know the eventual outcome.
Just being nosey, but how did you find that opportunity?
The boys parents are part of a family who own an estate about a mile away. They use the house as a shooting lodge and organise pheasant shoots etc. The friend who I eat with lives in a cottage there and I know them through him. I now also clean their house as well as the one where I live. They are a large family who have estates and vineyards in Italy. They are very nice folks and have been known to give me the odd bottle of red wine now and then. It was there I was visiting when I described the walk by the shores of the loch some time ago.
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1:50 am
Wed 4-Aug-10
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KateUK
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Post edited 1:50 am – Wed 4-Aug-10 by KateUK
But I would welcome any comments about the range of products that it should “stock”.
Danny- Those planers look awesome, just what I need to slice stuff nice and thinly in the kitchen. I have my Saw Safety Skills Certificate, so I should be fine using it.
But the smoking bags…mmmm….
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8:04 am
Wed 4-Aug-10
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shelley
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small typo on essential garden which currently reads essentail;
other than that it looks good!
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11:34 am
Wed 4-Aug-10
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Toffeeapple
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Danuta, I'm so pleased that you are enjoying your teaching task, you will let us know the outcome won't you?
Danny, I think you should re-think the categories on the shop site!
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1:07 pm
Wed 4-Aug-10
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danast
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Spent the morning teaching English again. The time just flew by for student and teacher which is a good sign. He is a very nice young lad and he works really hard.
TA, he sits his exam again, in Italy, I think at the end of this month. I will have to ask them to let me know if he passes.
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3:25 pm
Wed 4-Aug-10
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Toffeeapple
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danast said:
TA, he sits his exam again, in Italy, I think at the end of this month. I will have to ask them to let me know if he passes.
Please do, we'd love to know that you were able to get him up to standard.
I achieved a short walk today, great stuff. It has been raining quite hard for most of the day so that takes care of the watering of the garden.
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5:03 pm
Wed 4-Aug-10
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devongarden
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I love the description of the ladies fork: " This beautifully proportioned spade…" and of how to use the dutch hoe instead of hoeing. The standard American hoe is not the same as an English one, and I can't tell from the photo what the dutch hoe is. But I guess you hoe with all of them! 
Danny said:
It is still in its infancy and the appearance is pretty carp.
Does this mean we need to beware as it is fishy? 
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7:13 pm
Wed 4-Aug-10
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Danny
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Post edited 7:14 pm – Wed 4-Aug-10 by Danny
devongarden said:
Danny said:
It is still in its infancy and the appearance is pretty carp.
Does this mean we need to beware as it is fishy?
beautiful fresh fish, only, Barbara.
Thanks for your useful comments everybody.
Today's achievement is that Kitchen Garden magazine has hit the shops. Fiona's veg patch gets a four page spread from p 68.
Steve Ott, the editor who visited here, has written a nice gentle piece with interesting quotes from F.
Leaving aside Fiona's spot, I do think that this is an excellent magazine for the vegetable gardener. I read last month's issue from cover to cover and I am a non-gardener.
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7:26 pm
Wed 4-Aug-10
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Toffeeapple
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Having just had a nosey through the August on-line edition, I think I'll be asking my library to start keeping it in stock. I shall have a look at a newsagents tomorrow to see Fiona's piece – exciting isn't it?
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