From Jackie (February 2010)
 Working From Home
8.50 am. Finish breakfast, walk ten paces into study. Turn on computer. Ready to begin work. Read headlines instead.
9.10. Take last gulp of coffee, finish reading online headlines, ready to start work. Answer emails from Peg, Elaine, Noel instead.
9.35. Ready to start work.  First replies in from Elaine, and Peg.
9.45. Ready to start work. Reply email from Noel.
10.05. Ready to start work. Dad rings to say hello.
10.27. Ready to start work. Answer another email from Elaine. Decide I need another coffee.
10. 38. Ready to start work. Email arrives with pic of Hank (dog) wearing glasses. Cute.
10. 40. Finish coffee. Ready to start work.  Knock on door. Electricity linemen wanting to cut trees under power line. (Not our power lines- we have solar- the power lines that run through a corner of our place . . . read on.

The first web entry from 1999
Hi,
This site is a (probably vain) attempt to cut down on the number of letters in our overstuffed mailbox up in town. I try to answer all kid's letters, (a few thousand a year), but most adult enquiries are slowly eaten by silverfish in the pile by the sofa that the wombat knocked off the table last December and I haven't got round to collecting yet...
Some time or other we'll get round to throwing them in the compost.

Hopefully, the stuff in here will give kids enough material for their projects, and let everyone else find out which book they need to get out of the library to find out what they want to know or if you're feeling flush you can buy it from the contacts supplied.

I only have two hands (both of which are sometimes occupied with things other than answering mail), one tired brain and a computer that depends on sun or a creek powered waterwheel to power it.

But I promise - the answers are in the books, somewhere. (I did keep my fingers crossed with that promise.)

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