For three years we put out pear trees; they have budded out and that is all they have done since.

The pupils were taken on an educational visit to the science museum.

I have a database of all my contacts in my personal organizer.

Another culinary disagreement arose when Sue defined lamingtons as squares of sponge cake coated in red jelly. The rest of us were shocked and amused, and insisted that lamingtons were coated in thin chocolate icing and rolled in coconut and that Sue was confusing them with jelly cakes.