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1. At 01:32 PM on 18 Sep 2006, wrote:

   Eddie's back - two blogs, both very short.
   Sequinn cared about us bloggatinis (sob).

   BTW, nice to have you back Mr M.

2. At 01:37 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Fearless Fred wrote:

   I'm hopeful for an SB1 here, as the main page has gone a little loopy...

   I see from the daily email that this is the same school that Sequin dealt with last week. Is this going to be the start of a playground scrap? If so, "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

   Of course, other schools are available....

3. At 01:51 PM on 18 Sep 2006, John W wrote:

   Er.. Lissa,

   Eddie's blogs have disappeared from the main page. I navigated my way here via Sequin's last post, then use the "Next" link twice.

   eddie comes back and the blogs go haywire again....

4. At 02:06 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Tangent Wings wrote:

   Wonder howt his pupils refer to him.

5. At 02:10 PM on 18 Sep 2006, whisht wrote:

   "Customers" eh?

   excellent!
   Now we know why the pass-rate for exams is so high - the customer is always right

6. At 02:17 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Dave T Dogg wrote:

   'The kids don't want it' is a quote from an interviewee (on the local commercial drivel station i am forced to listen to at work) I thought the whole point was to make them eat something that was healthy and let them live a little longer rather then let them do what they want!

   Lets face it if they got to do what they wanted they wouldn't be at school in the first place. They would be hanging round the local chippy!

7. At 02:20 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Mark Drew wrote:

   I guess customers is more caring than consumers of services. In this politically correct world you have to be so careful to address people correctly so the term parents in most cases is inapplicable because they appear to do so little parenting!

8. At 02:26 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Jean Allison (Mrs) wrote:

   Last December, I had to put up with a group of "customers" incessantly singing 'We three kings of porridge and tar'. I was on a bus going from Arbroath to Blairgowrie.

9. At 02:29 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

   SB8

   Do these ‘customers’ refer to their head teacher as the Managing Director, or perhaps the Shop Manager. Facilitator of Educational Sustenance?

   P.S. I hope someone can answer my technical query, posted to the earlier blog entry.

   Apply this tourniquet and consult me in the morning.

10. At 02:38 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    SB8

    Oh it's all gone a bit pants today hasn't it?

    I'm off to hang about school gates and see if I can get me some free food. Or to the corner shop with my purse.

    This "working at home" thing - I should've known better. Getting nowhere. Back to the office tomorrow I think.

11. At 02:41 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Dr Hackenbush wrote:

    SB7 ?

    P.S. When you sign yourself ‘Eric Oliver’ for the e-newsletter, this is of course in tribute to the four-time Sidecar racing World Champion (1949, 1950, 1951, 1953).

    I thank you.

12. At 02:45 PM on 18 Sep 2006, wrote:

    If these are customers, then the school is a supplier.

    In a free market customers can buy from whoever they like. The headmaster should just be warned that if he fails to supply what his customers want he may end up out of a job.

    I though that it was bad form to introduce trade barriers nowadays.

13. At 02:48 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Hillman Hunter wrote:

    I'll bet Dinner Ladies don't call 'em "customers".

14. At 02:48 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Fearless Fred wrote:

    Working from home, eh, Appy? I've done that a few times myself, and it soon loses its appeal, I find...

    If you're off down the shops, I'll have a Curly Wurly

15. At 02:55 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Gen wrote:

    Surely in the school canteen the pupils are customers as they're buying their extremely healthy dinners. Or not, as the case may be

    SB14 btw

16. At 02:59 PM on 18 Sep 2006, wrote:

    Sob,

    I didn't even get the newsletter today.

    What does the teacher become - Customer Service Supplier?

17. At 03:03 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    SB14

    I do it more often than I should and it never goes to plan. It always turns into too many cuppas and excessive faffing with other things.

    Your Curly Wurly's in the kitchen Fearless, but if you don't grab it quick I'll eat it myself.

18. At 03:15 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Fearless Fred wrote:

    I'll try and get to the kitchen in a minute, but I have a call with the French at the moment:((

19. At 03:27 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    re 18

    Say ooh-la-la from me.

    I've bitten the end off but the rest is still there btw...

20. At 03:28 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Ian Yewendo wrote:

    sb19

    Hillman @13

    Do we have a mutual acquaintance: James H.?
    Have you any news of him?
    

21. At 03:39 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Fearless Fred wrote:

    Have you eaten the curly wurly already? You didn't leave me much time to get to the kitchen!

    I think Eddie's trying to confuse us by posting so often....

22. At 05:00 PM on 18 Sep 2006, valery pedant wrote:

    Aperry and FF - why else do you think I'm constantly on here - displacement tactics :o)

    I though Sequin did well on that interview by the way, sounded like she was trying really hard to keep a straight face....

    My remaining home-based "customer" has a day off today and has roped me into helping with her UCAS form, eeeek - so many choices, so few lunches, so little access for me to the pc

    Off to check out the other two blogs, can't keep up

    SB18

23. At 05:46 PM on 18 Sep 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    FLASH: Eddie promises Arctic Monkeys before end of PM today. You heard it here first.

24. At 05:53 PM on 18 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    re 23, actually David, I heard Eddie say it first - I heard it here second...

25. At 05:57 PM on 18 Sep 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    Hope you didn't miss the Arctic Monkeys.

26. At 06:04 PM on 18 Sep 2006, David McNickle wrote:

    Aperitif re 24,
    But you 'heard' me say it 'here' first. And, I must say, that's about as much of the Arctic Monkeys as I want to hear.

27. At 02:18 AM on 19 Sep 2006, wrote:

    Just listened to the program at my teatime in Houston. I noticed the "customers" comment. I am not sure what is behind that, but I am pretty sure that I don't like whatever led to this label.

    I think some radio 4 listeners will remember the horror of the liver and onions day and the joy of fish and chip day at school. I wouldn't want to go back to that and there is no need to. England has been introduced to so many dishes that we weren't aware of then. Remember when coq au vin was so exotic.

28. At 12:24 PM on 19 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    re 26 Frankly David, your argument's a bit thin. I'm allergic to nickel actually... maybe I shouldn't talk to you anymore??? And you seem such a nice chap - apart from the obvious tendency to claim undue credit for timely announements... ;)

    Tell you what, I'll wear protective clothing in future! (Then again, maybe you're not talking to me now...)

29. At 12:25 PM on 19 Sep 2006, Steve Nicol wrote:

    The phrase 'customers' confirms that schools are no longer centres for educating the next generation but businesses required to hit financial targets.

    I would try and put in a funny comment in what is my first post to the blog of the 'Comedy-Genius' that is Eddie Mair but Patricia Hewitt on the Today programme depressed me so much with her lo-fat Margaret Thatcher impression that I just can't bring myself to do that.

30. At 12:06 AM on 20 Sep 2006, Aperitif wrote:

    Welcome Steve (28).

    Hope you've perked up by now.

31. At 02:03 PM on 20 Sep 2006, kayedon wrote:

    but does he believe it, or does it just sound good.

    Those who say 'KIDS' are they goats ?

32. At 06:48 AM on 10 Dec 2006, David Brown wrote:

    Eddie.

    Send me an address to which I can email you the argos catalogue phone call. You must at least listen to it - assuming you haven't already done so, because it is just the funniest thing you ever heard if you understand and appreciate radical Geordie humour.

33. At 09:21 PM on 10 Dec 2006, wrote:

    "I think some radio 4 listeners will remember the horror of the liver and onions day and the joy of fish and chip day at school." I LOVED liver and onions, & still do, plus we never had fish & chips at my school. Chips, I ask you, not in my day!