User talk:Deirdre~enwiki
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Deirdre - just a word of thanks for your excellent spelling, typo and punctuation corrections ! I'm very tempted to put a link into constructed wetland into all my articles and edits just to get a free clean-up service. For those of us on very slow and intermittent connections, someone else tidying up loose ends is a real boon. Thanks
Velela 14:47, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Deirdre. Belated welcome!!! I noticed you on Velela's Talk page.
You're "somewhat of a compulsive proofreader", eh? So am I sometimes. My wife says I'm the only person in New Zealand who ever proofread his performance appraisal; well, that was the only thing worth doing to it; fortunately that boss left the council's employ soon after.
My knowledge of Alaska is 50% derived from Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska", which is one of my favo[u]rite songs. But I enjoyed a glance at your Ester, which I used to think was just a chemical term or a typo. Great to see that a 1600-person CDP can get such a writeup. My Plimmerton is only a little more populous but also an independent-minded "suburb". I must try to give it some more text.
Kind regards from across the Pacific Ocean. Robin Patterson 21:40, 24 Jan 2005 (UTC)