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Neither of my kids can do simple mental arithmetic, although they both have
degrees. They are from the generation where they were expected to use
calculator.

I've still got a schooldays calculator, but I can't find the battery
compartment, even if I pull the middle slidey door right out.

Can't find how to switch it on either innit.

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The message
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Our two get caught with special offers that aren't at all special.
Particularly
the sort the Co-op sometimes has where buying a lot of an item costs
more than
buying the items separately.

Ah, the Co-Op, with its 'Ethical' policies...

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On 26/2/09 01:00, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

Really? Lucky Hornchurch. When I worked there I don't remember anything so
exotic!
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On 26/2/09 01:04, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
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I got sega dell' arco from my dictionary but not the
adjustable bit.

Sega del' arco tuisti/scrui?

Certo.

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On 26/2/09 01:09, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Ugh - maths! I'll take your word for that. I really, really wish I had
your brain for maths - numbers terrify me thanks to bad teaching and a
bullying teacher.

We had a bullying teacher once - he lasted just one term. He just chose
the wrong school to try it on. If he'd stayed any longer he'd have gone
(more) bonkers.

Mine was a nun who was a truly horrible woman. Unfortunately, getting rid
of her wasn't that easy.
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On 26/2/09 08:40, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:28 GMT, Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

Hornchurch?? I grew up in Hornchurch when it was still a village!

No! Queen's Theatre, Val?!
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On 26/2/09 11:07, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:32:37 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 26/2/09 01:04, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

I got sega dell' arco from my dictionary but not the
adjustable bit.

Sega del' arco tuisti/scrui?

Certo.

Scorcio?

The Fast Show news & weather forecast next? )

I used to love the ad for the toothpaste Close Up on Italian tv - it was
pronounced closay oop. ;-)

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On 26/2/09 12:14, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:33:51 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 26/2/09 08:40, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:28 GMT, Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

Hornchurch?? I grew up in Hornchurch when it was still a village!

No! Queen's Theatre, Val?!

I don't remember that Sacha, was that once the cinema ? But I remember St
Andrews Church where I was confirmed.

Yes, it was once the cinema and then was a rep theatre. There's a new and
glitzy one now. I don't think I remembered how small it was. I was there as
the very lowest form of human life, a student ASM, in 1964/65 (IIRC!)
http://www.queens-theatre.co.uk/aboutus/stationlane.htm
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The message
from Aries contains these words:

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:28 GMT, Rusty_Hinge wrote:

The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

Hornchurch?? I grew up in Hornchurch when it was still a village!

Moi aussi.

And Italian was spoken in Billet Lane...

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The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 26/2/09 01:09, in article
, "Rusty_Hinge"
wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Ugh - maths! I'll take your word for that. I really, really wish I had
your brain for maths - numbers terrify me thanks to bad teaching and a
bullying teacher.

We had a bullying teacher once - he lasted just one term. He just chose
the wrong school to try it on. If he'd stayed any longer he'd have gone
(more) bonkers.

Mine was a nun who was a truly horrible woman. Unfortunately, getting rid
of her wasn't that easy.

Ah. Nun. A hard nut to crack, though voodoo dolls, Wicken symbols and
Satanic artefacts pinned to her habit or left in her desk...

(Speelchuck has never heard of 'maths' or 'Wicken'...)

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The message
from Sacha contains these words:
On 26/2/09 08:40, in article ,
"Aries" wrote:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:28 GMT, Rusty_Hinge wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

Hornchurch?? I grew up in Hornchurch when it was still a village!

No! Queen's Theatre, Val?!

Saw lots of things there in the old one by the White Hart, and later,
when it moved, on the onetime playing-field between North Street and
Billet Lane.

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The message
from Martin contains these words:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:00:28 GMT, Rusty_Hinge

wrote:
The message
from Sacha contains these words:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

And Hornchurch.

and Holland.

Ah, you've discovered!

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The message
from Martin contains these words:
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 01:01:45 GMT, Rusty_Hinge

wrote:
The message
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:39:33 +0000, Sacha
wrote:

Italian is, sadly, spoken only in Italy.

It was the fact that Italian is only spoken in Italy that made me
ask for an
intensive Italian course.

Has anyone told you yet that you aren't actually *IN* Italy?

Maybe it is just possible that I visited Italy every week.

Meals on wheels?

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The message
from Aries contains these words:

I don't remember that Sacha, was that once the cinema ?

The old one might have been, but I don't think so.

The new one was purpose-built.

I used to be a Fiend of Queen's Theatre...

But I remember St
Andrews Church where I was confirmed.

Ah. Rev. Hayden Dymoke?

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Now you've got me started lol lol and nothing at all to do with gardening
!
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