Phil wrote:
back, why was it not possible just to telephone through to my Gran from
Spain??
Why is it now possible for DH to phone me in the UK on his mobile from New
Zealand, but I can't phone from my local Sainsburys (supermarket) on one
side of Poole to phone DH on the other side of
I still have my Pitmans Course book and also my Learning and Testing
Short Forms book that I had when I went back to evening classes to brush up
my shorthand. I took shorthand, typing and accounts at school way back in
the early fifties.
With the arrival of audio tapes the shorthand rather got
Oh Janice I had forgotten about the typing to music, we also had one rather
nasty teacher who used a metronome and speeded it up as you practice typed.
I can still hear him chanting ASDF:LKJ
We were not allowed to look at the keys and that has always stood me in good
stead as it definitely helped
I remember when in school we could finally choose classes, the asst. principle
said he had signed me up for secretarial courses, and I was Indignant that I
would never do that! He insisted they were good basic skills to fall back on,
and that one time listening to him, was a good decision.
First,
I learnt Dacombe shorthand in Australia in 11th secretarial studies. Learnt
to type on an old manual too, but was never fast enough to move up to one of
the few electrics (this was end of the 70's). I think the school got its
first pc's in about 1981. A dear friend of mine worked for a bank and
We are always looking where we would like to retire to and recently, looking at
home site listings in Washington state, I came across the following site.
http://www.walkscore.com/?utm_source=themlsonline.comutm_medium=logoutm_campaign=ws_tile
It is a neat site where you can put in an address
