Tag: writing


  • I Hate Lynne Truss

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    My wife is the Events Coordinator for the Parents’ Association of our childrens’ school.  This means that I’m effectively involved too, doing anything that involves touching a PC instead of the ‘phone.  This week I had to deisgn and print some tickets for their Summer Ball.  Being short on both time and patience (and unpaid) I cut/pasted the text from somewhere else, threw in some clipart, and hit Print. Unfortunately I committed the cardinal sin of not proofreading, and the tickets went out on general release with the title “Parent’s Association Summer Ball”. [*] (For the less-eagle-eyed, the apostrophe is in the wrong place – it… Read more