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You've got a lovely chatty style in your writing that's just right for a blog, and the conversations you have with yourself in your head made me laugh!

Please tell us more about your job. What exactly does a property consultant do? Are you an estate agent or someone who buys and sells land? And how is the global recession affecting house and property prices in Thailand?

Turning now to the language aspects of your blog, I thought first we'd look at descriptions. After that, we'll look at the difference between watch, see and look and I'll also set you a few short tasks to do on them.

Descriptions
Let's have a look at this sentence from your blog:

My eyes were burn and blur.

You eyes can burn but your eyes can't be blurry, only something you look at can be described as blurry or blurred. So for example you could say:

My eyes burned and the screen was blurry.

or

The screen became blurred and the more I looked at it, the more my eyes burned.

See, watch, and look
These three verbs are all related to using our eyes but we use each verb in slightly different ways in English.

See is the plain, everyday verb for something that comes into our eyesight or that we become aware of:

I saw your mother yesterday in the supermarket.
Have you seen the boss anywhere this morning?

We use look when we want to talk really trying to see what's there and concentrating on it. You can see something without any real effort, but if you look at something, you're making an effort to see it:

With look, sometimes you need the word at and sometimes you don't. We use at with look if we there's an object (if we look at something). We don't use at if there's no object.

Where are you keys? They're right there. Look!
I looked at loads of dresses but didn't find anything I really liked.
A: Can't you see anything different about me?
B: No.
A: Look!
B: Oh, you've had your hair done. It looks lovely.

Watch is like look. We watch things that are happening, moving, changing or developing. We don't need a preposition with watch (so there's no need for at or on).

Did you watch the match on Saturday?
Watch that guy there. I think he's trying to shoplift something.

Now, let's have a look at some of your sentences from your blog, as well as some others I've made up. Your homework task is to choose the correct verb to complete each sentence:

1. As my finger was hovering over the delete key, I said to myself, 'No, no no no no no, watch on / watch/ look/ look at / see the message again.

2. What do you want to look at / see / watch on TV tonight?

3. Did you watch / see / look what she was wearing?

4. I've seen / looked at / looked / watched everywhere for my bag but I can't find it anywhere.

5. Look / Watch who is it! It's Maria.

6. I watched / looked at/ looked all her holiday photos but I didn't see / watch one that I thought was interesting.

7. See / Look / Watch into our minds and then we will find the right answer.

That's all for now.
Hope to hear from you again soon,

Nuala

Vocabulary
partner - boyfriend or girlfriend
countryside - area of land that's not in a city or town
hunt - search, look for
ledge - small shelf
hovering - staying in one place in the air, usually by moving quickly from side to side
chatty - informal, conversational
an estate agent - a person who's job is to buy and sell houses