'...an invaluable resource.  Thank you!

'I think that this site is extremely valuable.  Please keep up the good work.'

'Thank you for a great website!  I have been able to 'grab' a fair few ideas/ worksheets from the site - very useful!'

'Your site is a godsend!'

'Saw the site mentioned in TES online - congratulations on a good site.'

'I came across your interesting and obviously growing website. Well done!'

'I have just 'found' your site and am very impressed.'

'I am a very busy first year probationer in Scotland always looking for new resources and I was delighted to find this wonderful site. It has provided me with timesaving ideas and resources. In fact, it is a Godsend.  If I ever manage to find the time I would love to contribute some of my work.'

'I am student teaching this fall and the wealth of good (and time saving) information I find on the web amazes me.  Thank you for sharing.'

'As a non-specialist teaching English your site is a Godsend.  Thanks.'

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'Great stuff - I want to be the first to subscribe!'

'Sounds reasonable!  To whom do we make out the cheque and when? Thanks again for all the hard work.'

'I had no idea you were doing all this FRET work single-handed AND with a teaching post AND family.  How did you cope?!!  You fully deserve some time out and I fully support your proposals for a new concept site.  Count on my subscription please - you have an excellent site.'

'I will certainly subscribe to FRET as the quality of your resources are amazing and, for £10, no textbook could ever be worth it!'

'Congratulations on being the founder of the premiere website for English Teaching resources in the UK.  I wondered how you managed to combine teaching, life at home and work on the web. I think that such a resource must develop into a professional endeavour and feel confident that under your watchful eye it will go from strength to strength.  £10 is a steal and I hope to find the time to contribute more effective resources to the site in future.'

'A small price to pay for an excellent site.'

'I really like using FRET and have no worries about paying a £10 per year subscription fee.  Count me in!!!!'

'FRET has been so useful to me as a trainee teacher.  I wrote in with a few problems and was considering giving up my teaching. You replied personally and I'm grateful for the encouragement that you gave me to continue. Thank you! Just  to let you know that I'm amazed that u manage to teach, have a family and sort out FRET and I, for one, will be quite happy to pay the annual fee.  Good Luck for the New Year and enjoy the spare time that the new arrangements of FRET will hopefully afford you!'

'My school will be subscribing to FRET which is by far the best site of its type.'

'I feel compelled to reply to your email to say that I support your decision 100%.   FRET is such a fantastic, useful resource that I am only surprised it stayed free for so long.  I will subscribe immediately and will gladly pay £10 to have access to one of the best teaching resource sites on the Internet.'

'Thanks for your email about beginning to charge for FRET.   About time too!   It is one of the best and most useful sites.'

'Don't fret!  I think it's a great idea and am sure many of us will be only too  happy to pay the 10 pounds. Best wishes for 2002.'

'I support the step you are taking. You have an excellent website.'

'Thanks for your note about revising your position with FRET.  I'm  sure you'll get maximum support - me for one, a mere drop in the ocean of teachers.  Thank you for all your hard work, but look after the family, too and YOURSELF!!!'

'Definitely happy with the changes. Thanks for your effort and good luck with the return to real time.'

'Many, many thanks for all your hard work and effort with FRET - the site has proved to be an invaluable resource for  members of my Department, particularly the younger ones, who have nothing but praise for the material and people who contribute their work.  I speak on their behalf in saying that we will be happy to subscribe to the site in the future and fully appreciate and understand the reasons why this course of action has to be taken.  Families should always come first, and I wish you and your family a Happy New Year.'

'I support your thoughts wholeheartedly and would like to thank FRET for being a fantastic source of ideas and, at times, a lifesaver as well.  I will certainly have no hesitation in subscribing to FRET as I believe that it is well worth the money.'

'New Year - New Start.  Good for you!  You seem to have been running FRET since I started teaching as a mature entrant (last year was my NQT year) and I cannot thank you enough for how much time you saved me during my PGCE and NQT year in order that I could also spend some time with my family!  I'm sure everyone will be more than happy to pay the subscription - thank you for so much help thus far.'

'I didn't realise it was a one-woman operation - what a fantastic job you have been doing.  Thanks.  Look forward to supporting FRET in the future.'

'I am a relatively new recruit to FRET but have found it invaluable and must endorse any thanks others have passed your way.  I think it is wholly fair to make a charge for the services and will look to join my department and myself as an individual.  Please keep me informed and I can put the school on the books as well.  I know members of the department use it already at school.'

'Grateful thanks from a struggling PGCE student, I happily embrace any changes and will be signing up in the next few days. Enjoy what little time you will have with your family - they grow all too soon!  Many thanks again.'

'Happy New Year to you, Chantel, and congratulations on your stupendous achievement to date:  you have made a huge difference to my resources and, I am sure, to many others.'

'Good on you, and hope subs come in.'

'At £10 it really is still amazing value!  Thank you for all your hard work.  I've used lots of your  resources at College and my department are all now converted to the wonders of FRET!!'

'I am more than happy to pay the new FRET subscription.  As a PGCE student, I (and other students on my course) have found your pages stimulating and helpful - especially so when starting out and having no idea about what we are doing!'

'I'll be very happy to pay £10 for the use of the site as I think it will represent great value. I have found the site extremely easy to use - one of the best.'

'The site has been invaluable to me so I think the fee is very reasonable. Count on my support.'

'Your site is invaluable and certainly worth £10. Thanks. Enjoy family.'

'Thanks for letting me know what was going on on the site. Good on yer, girl!  I hope you have a great time getting your life back. I, for one, will certainly be subscribing as I couldn't do without the materials on such a terrific site.  Best wishes.'

'I think it's a great idea. I have found some fantastic stuff on your site, and have no objection to paying for it.  Go get your life back!'

'Just a short note to thank you for all the invaluable help I have received from your site over the last year. Starting out as a student teacher is quite a daunting experience, however your jewel of a web site guided me out of many a tight squeeze!!  It's hard to believe that you solely managed FRET amidst all your other responsibilities. Well done!  £10 is a mere pittance in comparison.'

'Sounds like the way forward to me!'

'Firstly thank you so much for FRET - it has been invaluable to me!  I would be quite happy to pay a subscription fee - '

'FRET is an excellent web site - well done!  I have been visiting it for some time and find the ideas very useful.  I'm sure that there will be few people who would resent paying a measly £10 for something so helpful.'

'Thanks for all of the work you have put into FRET.  I will certainly continue to use this extremely helpful resource.'

'Thanks for the monumental amount of work you have put into this web site.  I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed and although I know we would all like the site to remain free, practicalities mean that this is not always possible.  I for one  would be willing to pay an annual subscription fee of £10.' 

'I will happily take out a personal subscription to FRET which has been and will no doubt continue to be a wonderful resource.  Thank you for giving up your time for others.'

'As an NQT I can't thank you enough for all the help I have got from the site over the last 12 months.  A subscription is a very small way to say thank you!'

'I just would not have coped without FRET.  Understand completely your reasons for changing, as I am sure will many others.  I  will be using the site as normal - think the charges are very reasonable, considering the quality of the material available.'

'I think the subscription charges are more than fair and will be re-registering in the near future.  Hope everything works out as you want it to.'

'No problem.  I'd be more than willing to pay for the service you offer - I've used a lot a valuable resources from your site in the past and have always been very grateful for the work that you and others have put into it - ten pounds is a very acceptable price.'

'I think what you have done with FRET is fantastic and am very, very grateful that it exists.  I am an NQT and don't think I would have made it through my training and first term without your site and the resources that you have made available to me. Thanks very much.'

'Just to let you know that I, and am sure a lot of other users of your site, will understand.  As a mother myself I know how valuable the time spent with your children is and I feel that £10 a year is a small price to pay when you get such brilliant resources.'

'Please don't worry about the changes you've had to make to FRET; they are more than reasonable and your reasons for wanting to step back are so important.  I will certainly be registering for continued use of FRET.  As a PGCE student, they have proved invaluable.  Now, go and give your daughter and husband a big hug!!'

'Thanks for all the wonderful plunder you have made available. As an NQT I was SO thankful for stuff which worked!  Don't torture yourself over it - you don't need me to tell you how fast children grow up. First things first, eh?'

'Thank you for the email re the changes to FRET. They sound well thought out and there is no reason why juggling should feature so large on any of our CVs.  If I get the technology right, I'll be happy to subscribe - it's an initiative that deserves support.  Best wishes for 2002.'

'I would like to wish you all the very best in your new "venture".  FRET has been a remarkable resource, much used.  Will be signing up soon.' 

THE FUNNY / FRIENDLY EMAILS

REPLY SO I  HAVE YOUR ADDRESS.'  (um ...?)

'Please send me your suggestions and resources to enrich my classes.'

'If I could hug you I would!!'

'Work like you don't need the money
Love like you've never been hurt
Dance like nobody's watching'

'Wonder Woman, here is a Stone Cold SOW for you to peruse!  Compliments of the dude.'

Requesting Test Answers: The 'How to' Guide (quite funny in themselves!)

'Just found your excellent test for year 8.  Would like to use it with my lot.  Any chance of the answers?'

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'I've decided to be a bit of a cheat and rather than work out the answers for myself I thought I'd come to you instead.'

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'I need those answers please!!!!!'  

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'Please could you send the answers to the Lord of the Flies Test?  The test looks very thorough and I look forward to trying it out on my class in the near future.'

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'I am sharing your Lord of the Flies Test with my student teacher.  May we have a copy of the answer key!  This test has been a life saver for both of us!!  I am trying to share him what a valuable teaching tool the internet is and this site has been very valuable!!  Thank you so much!!  (Exclamation mark fiend!)   ;~D

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'Thanks for your brilliant resources on Lord of the Flies.  They have been very useful indeed.  The pupils have enjoyed the work on this text that have clearly been enhanced by the resources that you have made available to me online. 

It is now time for them to do the test and I would appreciate it if you could send me a copy of the answers to save me going through the test and working them all out myself.'