On 26/10/07 04:17, in article , "Anne
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I'm sure they'll be ok and hope it's kept in Devon where it's started.

Except that it started in Reading, which is in Berkshire...

Hello AnneJ, you always, but always have facts to your fingertips,
does your name begin with Encly...... :-)) Hope everything is o.k.
with you and yours tonight.

Sorry to post off-topic, everyone, but I just need to let well-wishers
know that my grandson still has a fever, and is still on antibiotics...

Early days, Anne. He's young and he's resilient. I do feel so deeply for
you - one of my children had to have a major op of a different sort and I'd
have given anything to have had it for them. Your grandson will get there.

I just wish Monday was over and done with. Martyn is a strapping lad,
and, heart problem aside, as healthy as they come, but I just worry so!
Never a good sleeper at the best of times, I scarcely get a wink of sleep
at present.

Worrying for our young never does stop. But his overall health otherwise is
hugely in his favour - really enormously so. It's a good thing this problem
has been detected and is being dealt with under controlled conditions of
choice.

You know, Judith, it occurred to me at a recent school reunion that
so much time was wasted at high school because not one of the teachers
managed to awaken in me a love of learning. That didn't come until
much, much later... I sometimes wonder what percentage of teachers
can actually _teach_ and how many merely regurgitate facts?

Ah - gifted teachers. I was lucky in that I had good English and French
teachers early on but absolutely terrible maths teachers. To this day I
can't do or understand Sudoku - it's another language to me and not one to
which I have the key. But because I had good *early* arithmetic teachers,
I can add up at the speed of light!

My 10 y.o. grand-daughter thinks it incredibly funny that her Nana, who can
tell at a glance exactly how many tiles will be needed for any
particular wall,
cannot for the life of her understand Sudoku... it's just totally defeats me!
I keep asking 'What is the _point_' of it! Crosswords, I absolutely love, and
find them a worthwhile challenge...

Yes, I enjoy crosswords and have started doing them again - rarely
completing them I must say! But my attitude to Sudoku is exactly like
yours. It's a bit like my attitude to wind-surfing - why bother!
--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
(remove weeds from address)
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'