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"Sacha" wrote 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! Funny, but I hate crosswords especially those that don't give proper clues whereas I love Sudoku, it's so logical. But then I was a slow starter at reading, not interested as a kid, and only got interested when the Maths teacher said "read the next chapter and do the questions at the end" .... panic! :-) -- Regards Bob Hobden 17mls W. of London.UK |
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On 28/10/07 16:35, in article , "Bob
Hobden" wrote: "Sacha" wrote 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! Funny, but I hate crosswords especially those that don't give proper clues whereas I love Sudoku, it's so logical. But then I was a slow starter at reading, not interested as a kid, and only got interested when the Maths teacher said "read the next chapter and do the questions at the end" .... panic! :-) Just shows how early experiences influence us, I suppose. I do wish I'd ever got a grasp of maths but one of my teachers was so wicked and so cruel that I truly believe it frightened me off the subject for ever. -- 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.' |
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On 28/10/07 16:58, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I wouldn't be surprised if Tesco buy them up. That would complement their acquisition of Dobbie's, certainly... Apparently T&M is up for sale, too. Ray thinks that its present format was the result of a management buy out. Now I just wish that someone like Richard Branson would buy Little Chef and turn them into really good roadside caffs like L'Arche in France! We ate well at those and even got paper tray cloths into the bargain! I did management training with the Forte organisation, many years ago, with a view to working in one of their Little Chefs... their idea, not mine! I just went looking for a job as a part-time waitress! Didn't get offered a job at the end of it, though - I didn't 'fit in', somehow! ;-) Can't think why? Time for your take over bid, perhaps? ;-) -- 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.' |
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"Sacha" wrote 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! Sudoku is a puzzle of logic. The symbols can be any 9 distinct symbols - the fact they are numbers doesn't make the puzzle mathemetical any more than one would regard it as verbal if it used the letters A-I instead. Killer sudoku, otoh, does require a certain facility with arithmetic (though not mathematics) alongside logic. -- Kay |
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On 28/10/07 18:17, in article , "K"
wrote: "Sacha" wrote 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! Sudoku is a puzzle of logic. The symbols can be any 9 distinct symbols - the fact they are numbers doesn't make the puzzle mathemetical any more than one would regard it as verbal if it used the letters A-I instead. Killer sudoku, otoh, does require a certain facility with arithmetic (though not mathematics) alongside logic. For me, Sudoku is a bit like the slide rule. I have lost count of the times people have tried to explain both to me and given it up as hopeless. I will freely admit that I have an instinctive brain rather more than a logical one, so I suppose that doesn't help in the first place! OTOH, I often see the solution to a practical problem involving the use of time and resources three steps ahead of the rest of the family. But I think that's probably training-by-motherhood! I simply don't understand how you get 'into' the whole Sudoku grid, make it work etc. in the first place. But with crosswords, I often get an instinctive leap to the answer and have to work out why it's right afterwards. How *that* happens, I have no way of explaining. You have a scientific brain, I'd say, I certainly don't. -- 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.' |
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In article , Sacha
writes Isn't that a French company Sacha? Judith Yes and a very big one, too. http://tinyurl.com/3dmgb8 Was Sutton's a family concern before then? -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 28/10/07 20:08, in article , "Janet
Tweedy" wrote: In article , Sacha writes Isn't that a French company Sacha? Judith Yes and a very big one, too. http://tinyurl.com/3dmgb8 Was Sutton's a family concern before then? Yes, it was founded in Reading in the 1830s by John Sutton as a family firm. -- 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.' |
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On 28/10/07 18:01, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I wouldn't be surprised if Tesco buy them up. That would complement their acquisition of Dobbie's, certainly... Apparently T&M is up for sale, too. Ray thinks that its present format was the result of a management buy out. Now I just wish that someone like Richard Branson would buy Little Chef and turn them into really good roadside caffs like L'Arche in France! We ate well at those and even got paper tray cloths into the bargain! I did management training with the Forte organisation, many years ago, with a view to working in one of their Little Chefs... their idea, not mine! I just went looking for a job as a part-time waitress! Didn't get offered a job at the end of it, though - I didn't 'fit in', somehow! ;-) Can't think why? Time for your take over bid, perhaps? ;-) I absolutely refused to follow their guidelines on how long everything should be cooked! *I* left everything until it was _properly_ cooked! As for 'a portion of croutons is FIFTEEN croutons' well, I ignored that too! Everyone got a spoonful - usually more than 15! If they thought that I was going to stand and count out fifteen, every time someone ordered soup, they had another think coming! 'A portion of chips is eight ounces...'!! They were supposed to be weighed, as well! As for the rest of their petty rules...e.g. 'a pancake must be exactly twelve inches in diameter'!! Well, I ask you... do _you_ take a ruler to your pancakes? ;-) (Sorry for posting off-topic!) Okay. You AND Richard Branson! And No, I don't take a ruler to my pancakes - everyone else takes a shovel and fork. I make fabulous Yorkshire puddings and awful pancakes. In fact, you've reminded I've got to work on those. -- 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.' |
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On 29 Oct, 00:06, Sacha wrote:
On 28/10/07 18:01, in article , "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: "Anne Jackson" wrote: The message from Sacha contains these words: I wouldn't be surprised if Tesco buy them up. That would complement their acquisition of Dobbie's, certainly... Apparently T&M is up for sale, too. Ray thinks that its present format was the result of a management buy out. Now I just wish that someone like Richard Branson would buy Little Chef and turn them into really good roadside caffs like L'Arche in France! We ate well at those and even got paper tray cloths into the bargain! I did management training with the Forte organisation, many years ago, with a view to working in one of their Little Chefs... their idea, not mine! I just went looking for a job as a part-time waitress! Didn't get offered a job at the end of it, though - I didn't 'fit in', somehow! ;-) Can't think why? Time for your take over bid, perhaps? ;-) I absolutely refused to follow their guidelines on how long everything should be cooked! *I* left everything until it was _properly_ cooked! As for 'a portion of croutons is FIFTEEN croutons' well, I ignored that too! Everyone got a spoonful - usually more than 15! If they thought that I was going to stand and count out fifteen, every time someone ordered soup, they had another think coming! 'A portion of chips is eight ounces...'!! They were supposed to be weighed, as well! As for the rest of their petty rules...e.g. 'a pancake must be exactly twelve inches in diameter'!! Well, I ask you... do _you_ take a ruler to your pancakes? ;-) (Sorry for posting off-topic!) Okay. You AND Richard Branson! And No, I don't take a ruler to my pancakes - everyone else takes a shovel and fork. I make fabulous Yorkshire puddings and awful pancakes. In fact, you've reminded I've got to work on those. -- Sachahttp://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.' With people still asking about the origins of Suttons seeds I'll repost the link to the company history http://www.suttons.co.uk/History.htm If I want a 12 inch pancake I use a 12 inch pan, for a 10 inch then a 10 inch pan and so on. When did common sense die? David Hill |
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In reply to Dave Hill ) who wrote this in
, I, Marvo, say : With people still asking about the origins of Suttons seeds I'll repost the link to the company history http://www.suttons.co.uk/History.htm If I want a 12 inch pancake I use a 12 inch pan, for a 10 inch then a 10 inch pan and so on. When did common sense die? I don't think it's dead, it's just not allowed because it isn't politically correct. |
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In article .com, Dave
Hill writes When did common sense die? David Hill The day before the last General Election :) (sorry couldn't resist that one David) -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 29/10/07 11:25, in article
, "Dave Hill" wrote: snip With people still asking about the origins of Suttons seeds I'll repost the link to the company history http://www.suttons.co.uk/History.htm If I want a 12 inch pancake I use a 12 inch pan, for a 10 inch then a 10 inch pan and so on. When did common sense die? David Hill ;-)) -- 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.' |
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* Anne Jackson wrote, On 29/10/2007 19:50:
The message from contains these words: On Oct 25, 6:58 pm, Anne Jackson wrote: Except that it started in Reading, which is in Berkshire... It's now in Devon since 1976. Rubbish! It's _still_ in Berkshire! Why do you persist in giving misleading information, Helene? Reading is still in Berkshire but, judging from their website (http://www.suttons.co.uk/ContactUs.htm), Suttons Seeds are now in Devon, in Paignton. I assume that's what Helene was referring to. -- Cheers, Serena What would men be without women? Scarce, sir... mighty scarce. (Mark Twain) |
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On Oct 29, 8:52 pm, Anne Jackson wrote:
The message from Anne Jackson contains these words: The message from contains these words: On Oct 25, 6:58 pm, Anne Jackson wrote: Except that it started in Reading, which is in Berkshire... It's now in Devon since 1976. Rubbish! It's _still_ in Berkshire! Why do you persist in giving misleading information, Helene? LOL I realised after I posted this that you meant that Sutton's Seeds are in Devon... I was talking about Reading... LOL They do sometimes move county borders around, fools that they are! Peterborough moved from Northamptonshire to Cambridgeshire at one time... -- AnneJ You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles. I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles! - Edythe E. Bregnard Never mind Anne, it's still in East Anglia, or was when I last looked G Judith |
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