Milk

[Mo Docherty]

got kidney stones drinking too much milk

[Johnny Kieran]

Loved being on 4-8 gangway watch in NZ, always first to get a slug of cold fresh milk as it was carried up the steps by the delivery man.

Shouldn't have called it steps, accommodation ladders better.

[Des Jenkins]

Hi John
I was seven when the war started, been at school for four years, not that it did me much good, had English teachers who used to hang a placard around our necks if we spoke in Welsh, as for teaching forget about it.
Des
Ps
Learned more from my wife than school taught me. especially math's.

[j.sabourn]

Don’t think they even teach the alphabet these days Des, as for the tables have my doubts. Handwriting you can forget about judging by some of the scrawls I have seen. Maybe they finish up in the medical profession ?
One starts to learn properly when one leaves school I found. Your ahead of the game if you learned the three Rs
Cheers JS

[Des Jenkins]

Hi John
We watch a game on TV called tipping point an advance from the shove a halfpenny, the other night a girl /woman in a skirt that looked like a handkerchief said she was a personal trainer, in what she didn't say, but dim as, the Ocean off France was the Pacific, I was waiting for her o say that Russia was in the States, but thankfully she only answered one question and was eliminated, but the ignorance about Geography is terrible, someone should teach the teachers.
Des

[James Curry]

Perhaps a reason many struggle to be able to write these days is we all use a word processor/computer key board. I have to practice my signiture a couple of times before I sign anything. Very seldom write anything by hand. The shopping list I do by hand but everything is in Capitals.
Here in the England, Children are ranked 4th Globally in reading and writing. Singapore 1, Hong Kong 2 & Russia 3. No surprise 1&2 are Asian countries.

All I can say is my eldest granddaughter her handwriting is really a pleasure to read. She is French and has a love for cooking. She will get grandmas cook books out and copy recipes , thing is as she is copying them she is reading the english and translating as she reads and writing down the recipe in french. My son says she does the same thing with her other grandma only this time she is reading the recipes which are in Albanian and translating it into french as she goes along, as you may have picked up I am very proud of my Granddaughters Cynthisa is 11 and Elia is 7 she is not there yet but will catchup, Both are tri·lin·gual. Now that is a good head start for any child.