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Would you like a cup of tea?

Molly, you're a famed tea drinker, but yup these ones are just regular tea leaves.

Would you like a cup of tea?

Red, go for it, I also commented on her blog here

So tea is the drink for people with time on their hands (at least 3 minutes, anyway). Got it!

Would you like a cup of tea?

Luke, I do wonder who nabbed the 2 office-size coffee containers

what a swizz, eh?

Would you like a cup of tea?

Map, Molly says to ask you for a SOP on tea-making


Funny, always thought you were a through-and-through coffee man!

Would you like a cup of tea?

(Mimi, loved your blog, liked the song (didn't expect to) and that story about Peg Entwhistle, never heard it before. The irony of that offer being held up in the post, wow.)

Would you like a cup of tea?

Mimi, how can you even ask! All three!!!!



(bring cupcakes)

Would you like a cup of tea?

Imback that sounds like a lot of work for someone who drinks instant coffee but okay, thanks

Boiling the milk too? Okay!

I think taking the bag out after 8 seconds may have been part of my problem.

RE: I just can't help it...

Blimey I'm a closet romantic too. You sure had me fooled

I wish

Fingers crossed my premium bonds finally hit a gusher today, I feel I could enjoy a little down time.

RE: Global warming

Oh, and birth levels have already dropped below recovery level not only for the Nipponese but for Anglo Saxons - we're extinct already, it will just take a few more generations to complete the process, but it is now irreversible and our only long-term hope is to be adopted for breeding programs by aliens.

RE: Not that the topic at all applies.....

In the UK you will always find a section of people who feel they have been put upon and it is never, ever their fault. Not called the land of the whinging poms for nowt.

I'm tall. However I feel I have been discriminated against because I'm ginger and therefore I have earned less. Not FAIR. Could easily have cost me up to £60K in my working life. EASILY. I'm considering suing.

Every other Russian premier is bald.

Most actors are short.

I like Mic's comment about not being able to be a jockey

I wish

Diova, love love love that profile pic

Not in an embarrassingly butch way, you understand, ahem.

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Luke, howzit boet

Don't kid a kidder, you didn't even read the first lines haha but ta for the flowers

I wish

The only one making or taking comments I mean. Hi Jarred hold the fort

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WOW

Just looked down the list of blogs

I am the ONLY BLOGGER ON LINE

RE: What is it about bloggers who don't....

Some simply don't allow comments, it's their 'thang'
Some will bite your head off for commenting, and that's their thang and how they prove their utter superiority
I was reading an old blog of mine where I had deleted a comment. Really wish I hadn't now since half a dozen other comments referred to it and I can't work it out by context

That's a rambling answer. Oh well.

I wish

Daniela, the one advantage to teaching kids is that I plan to use The Cat In The Hat as a teaching book - that's 236 words I nail into student heads, and the 5 to 7 year olds are likely to be less impatient about it

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Daniella, I think I'd be afraid to teach Germans, they would want to quiz me on parts of speech. Quick bit of racial profiling and prejudice there but I went cold at the thought

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That doesn't sit well with your image of glamorous siren

RE: WRITING - Blank Screen Syndrome

not even close

I keep paper and pen by my bed too in case inspiration strikes, so much better than stumbling round trying to find them or leaving a message on the mirror in eyebrow pencil at 3 in the morning.

This way, I don't actually even turn on the light, just jot a note and go back to sleep

and then comes the morning and that 'what the HELL?' moment

I wish

I've only ever taught adults, and TBH I've only ever taught - on any kind of ongoing organized basis - how to use spreadsheets. I'm absolutely zippety-doo on teaching Excel. I wonder if I can set up my own system of teaching English by Excel?

That 9-12, yes, they are the best of a bad bunch. Old enough to be bright, and not yet convinced they know it all already.

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It really is time I ruled the world. I'd sort that sign language thing out spit-spot and then force everyone to learn it. Life in that respect at least would become so uncomplicated.

That quote I used in the blog? from a section on 1000 phrasal verbs in context.

Hold me.

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Molly I am terrified of kids, always have been. that's one part of the human race I NEVER got to grips with, not when I was one, not when I raised one. Kids are scary.

I plan to teach purely conversational English, if I am allowed to teach anybody of course, to adults. 'Do you come here often?' 'Take my taxi, it is the best taxi' - but of course can't turn down any potential victims. Plus the course doesn't let you pick and choose ...

And translations. I do translations into colloquial English as it is, the qualification can't hurt!

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Posolet, thank, tank, yeah, I can see that being a problem in the army

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Molly, thing that gets me - you're Irish, you say words slightly differently to me, being a Saffer, and I say things slightly differently to my Scottish neighbours. Well, sometimes more than slightly. So how can any one IPA hope to get things spot on?

I used to think sign language was the future, that we could all learn sign language and be able to communicate anywhere in the world because when I was signing 'where is the station' the person reading my hands would know exactly what I meant even though the words were completely different in his / her language.

Now I hear there are different sign languages too. Why? WHY?

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The other treat of learning how to teach English is the IPA.

This is the international phonetic alphabet. You can get English in fancy English, regional English, American English, and it will teach you how to say every word perfectly.

Once you learn it.

I shall try a copy / paste - pho·net·ic (f?-net'ik) adj.

Easy, eh?

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Molly, I think I must have gone into a recurring coma when we covered that lot at school. Either that or in the scurrying years since they have added more and more and MORE to it.

But I did like this joke:

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Pro, my love affair with myself has its moments of doubt and hostility too

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Red, true, we don't have THAT complication!

RE: WRITING - Blank Screen Syndrome

I see you on that car journey scribbling furiously

Sit in front of a computer, coffee to hand, and mind goes blank.
Stand in the boarding queue at the airport, and brain is buzzing with ideas falling over each other, crowding and elbowing and pushing and all of them solid gold which must be written down NOW