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« Reply #3525 on: 15:57:08, 02-07-2008 » |
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Hope you have a good day then hh.
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« Reply #3526 on: 16:19:48, 02-07-2008 » |
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Definitely one for the waffle thread ... My office canteen has just started selling packets of what are quite clearly those utterly delicious Dutch snacks, stroopwafels ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel... but the packets claim to offer "real food from Wales."  So ... is there some ancient link between the biscuit traditions of Wales and the Netherlands that I'm unaware of? Can anyone shed some light on this vital subject? pw, I wish the answer was some diabolical Welsh plot to claim they invented the Stroopwafel but the answer is quite simple. They are made by the Tregroes Waffle Company in Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, which is owned by a Dutch family. So they are Stroopwafels made in Wales by the Dutch. |
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« Reply #3527 on: 16:27:18, 02-07-2008 » |
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Definitely one for the waffle thread ... My office canteen has just started selling packets of what are quite clearly those utterly delicious Dutch snacks, stroopwafels ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroopwafel... but the packets claim to offer "real food from Wales." So ... is there some ancient link between the biscuit traditions of Wales and the Netherlands that I'm unaware of? Can anyone shed some light on this vital subject? pw, I wish the answer was some diabolical Welsh plot to claim they invented the Stroopwafel but the answer is quite simple. They are made by the Tregroes Waffle Company in Llandysul, Carmarthenshire, which is owned by a Dutch family. So they are Stroopwafels made in Wales by the Dutch. Thanks very much for this info - having sampled them they are every bit as good as the native Dutch stroopwafel |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #3528 on: 19:22:45, 02-07-2008 » |
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Looks like Murray's going down the pan to Nadal. As the Beeb website has it, 'It's as quiet as the Crucible out there, and the gap in class between these two is bigger than a behemoth's bath-tub.'
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« Reply #3529 on: 19:38:30, 02-07-2008 » |
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'These groundstrokes from Nadal are somehow beautiful and terrifying at the same time - it's like being eaten alive by a snow leopard. He crashes his way to 40-0 on the Murray serve and polishes him off with a backhand so brutally fast and accurate that even the ball starts sobbing. '
I LIKE the guy writing these updates!
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« Reply #3530 on: 05:52:03, 03-07-2008 » |
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Pity Murray lost yesterday, but he was outgunned by nadal, who was rather impressive. Murray will be back next year, more experienced, perhaps beter, we hope so, for British tennis.
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« Reply #3531 on: 17:50:13, 04-07-2008 » |
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I want one of these! (and enough space to house it) Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #3532 on: 19:08:46, 04-07-2008 » |
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Thanks tommo.. wonderful!! 2 questions arise however......1) Where on earth did they get the idea from? and 2) What were you looking for when you found it?  Cooooool !! A |
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« Reply #3533 on: 20:17:13, 04-07-2008 » |
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Teaching anecdote warning...scroll on down if you're allergic to the funny things children say/write...  I've just been marking Timelines. The children had 4 sentences to place in the appropriate place on the timeline. E-J muddled 2 of them up. Underneath the date 776BC she wrote The first Olympic Games were held in Stockport.
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #3534 on: 22:33:18, 04-07-2008 » |
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The things they say... indeed !!
I remember a long time ago teaching a GCSE group about an idee fixe... the answer I got in the mock exam was an 'Edale Phitts' ... where on eath that had come from I have no idea!!!
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« Reply #3535 on: 23:13:21, 04-07-2008 » |
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A, That reminds me of one of the 7 year old in my class writing Iced Tea Sweet for ICT Suite! I don't think he was trying to be funny. I often despair of them spelling ordinary words correctly. J has written this about the fencing competitors (we're "doing" the Olympic Games): But you fink that there guna get hert.
It reflects how she speaks. She always says "fink" for "think" and "guna" for "going to".  And as for teaching them to write there, they're and their correctly...Aaargh! |
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« Reply #3536 on: 23:49:43, 04-07-2008 » |
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A, That reminds me of one of the 7 year old in my class writing Iced Tea Sweet for ICT Suite! I don't think he was trying to be funny. I often despair of them spelling ordinary words correctly. J has written this about the fencing competitors (we're "doing" the Olympic Games): But you fink that there guna get hert.
It reflects how she speaks. She always says "fink" for "think" and "guna" for "going to". And as for teaching them to write there, they're and their correctly...Aaargh! When I was at school Father Bernadette used to come down on the their/there/to/too farrago strongly. It was an hour in detention. Once never the same mistake!! |
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« Reply #3538 on: 08:39:46, 05-07-2008 » |
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A, That reminds me of one of the 7 year old in my class writing Iced Tea Sweet for ICT Suite! I don't think he was trying to be funny. That reminds me of a colleague teaching Year R some years ago who was asked by a child how to spell 'tray'. It was duly written into his word book. Moments later, he was back..asking how to spell 'nengine'!! He now works for Eurostar. |
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« Reply #3539 on: 09:19:02, 05-07-2008 » |
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Nice one IGI.
Slightly different was the A level student who, in one of his papers was asked what to do if there was a rodent infestation in the workshop.
Answer .. Send for Rentokil... full stop next question !
Seems fair enough but not quite enough for an A level answer I imagine!
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