Thread: COVID-19, is your workplace essential?

Originally Posted by 4bee

Thanks Teach. All this because of our concerns for the temperature of Ron's Jewels.

Even your explanation is still a bit of a puzzle to me but I promise that I will try to do better, so no need to send a Report Card home to my Parents.. The mysteries of the English Language eh?

Very good. If you eliminate a letter you replace it with an apostrophe. And for possession. And sometimes for plurals.
English really is a crazy language.

Juts back from a week a Young, Back to work tomorrow. The week at Young was spent working at the APA gas facility. They are doing a planned shut down. This facility takes the main gas line from Moomba and then supplies Sydney and Canberra. The firm I work for do specialized valve repairs and apart from other work we did there was one of these valves at Young. So yes I could say that my workplace is essential. Made for a easy drive there and back.
Cheers Hall

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Very good. If you eliminate a letter you replace it with an apostrophe. And for possession. And sometimes for plurals.
English really is a crazy language.

The word 'And' should never be used to start a sentence.

Originally Posted by Saitch

The word 'And' should never be used to start a sentence.

AND the problem with that is?

Originally Posted by Saitch

The word 'And' should never be used to start a sentence.

And that outdated rule is no longer compulsory, particularly in informal language. And the world's best novelists, such as our own Tasmanian Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan routinely ignore it.

But it does sound somewhat crass IMO.

Back on topic,yes we are working,business as usual.Refrigeration is essential,AC is not,only in some cases.

Although the jobs are reducing,we are cleaning up the ones we are behind on.

Oh,and if you didn't know,the traffic is fantastic,no congestion at all.

In fact i came down the M1 today about 3.00pm,no stop start,straight through that Gateway to Daisy Hill area,at the speed limit.Much better than a normal weekend day.Twenty minutes to get to the Gabba from the workshop,unheard of at 6.30am in the morning.Usually 45 to 60 minutes.

BUT,heaps of businesses are shut,many shops are closed with 'For Lease' signs in the windows.The business have just disappeared overnight,not good.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

And that outdated rule is no longer compulsory, particularly in informal language. And the world's best novelists, such as our own Tasmanian Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan routinely ignores it.

That is ok then, as there is nowhere more informal than AULRO.