herbs. I picked a whole bunch from my garden at home and handed them round the group and asked if they could identify them.They did pretty well.
I was especially impressed by the girl who knew what lemon verbena looked like. Perhaps she might have a career ahead of her in the food industry.The second prompt came when reading some of the comments that readers had posted under my column a few weeks back about our ongoing shortage of staff.
Usually I feel flattered that readers take the trouble to share their thoughts, but on this occasion I was perturbed.Several suggested that my problem in recruitment was to do with me paying waiting staff too little.
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