Or more appropriately misplaced apostrophes. That is the subject of my Ranty Friday this week. I am sick of them. Seeing apostrophes in the wrong place in documents produced by companies. And it is hardly difficult. Why do people find it so hard to get it right? I saw this picture in a garden centre last December and it made me scream. Not just one poster but all over the
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Musings
Climb Snowdon for Comic Relief. Job done
Team Honk’s engagement with Comic Relief started off as firmly being about fund raising. That was what I had in mind when I contacted Emma Freud about getting bloggers on board. And it was that in mind that Annie and I went to visit them in December. Forty eight hours for three of us in Ghana came about as an off shoot of that. An amazing off shoot. A life
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The Universe versus Alex Woods — March 2013
With all this news of a meteorite falling to the ground in Russia it seemed to make sense that this recently published book be the Mummy Barrow Book Club Selection for March. Alex, our central character is hit on the head by a meteorite at a young age and it quite literally changes his life.
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Ranty Friday — Passports
Oh yes, this week’s Ranty Friday is all about passports and the nonsense unfathomable form we have to fill in Now I like to think of myself as relatively intelligent. I dont have a maths GCSE and I am rubbish at grammar but I get by. English is my first language so red tape and form filling is relatively straight forward generally. Until it comes to filling in passport applications.
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Admitting to taking drugs
My ears were pricked when I heard about a new study being discussed this week. A study done in the US by Dr Jennifer Kam recently that looked at 500 high school pupils and their conversations with their parents about cigarettes, marijuana and alcohol. And whether parents should be admitting to taking drugs.
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Ranty Friday — Local Councils
Earlier in the week I read this story. Mother of eleven has six bed council house built Now I am not going to judge this lady. I know nothing about her and at the end of the day, whether anybody likes it or not, she is entitled to a house. She obviously meets certain criteria set by the Council who have agreed to house her.
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Dear PR and SEO companies
Good morning and thank you for your email. I always love getting emails from you (either PR or SEO expert, or website owner who has something lovely to sell) or other people within your field, it brightens my otherwise dull day no end. You often offer me a product to review that I have not seen before. Or along to an event that may not have been on my radar.
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Innocent til proven guilty, right? Wrong
That is how it is under British Law, isn’t it? You are innocent until proven guilty. Well it appears you might be wrong to assume that these days. I was shocked when Michael Le Vell was arrested a couple of years ago on suspicion of some pretty awful crimes. And was also then surprised when he was then released because there was deemed to be insufficient evidence to bring about
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Ranty Friday — Shouting down the phone
No not me. Other people doing it. This week’s Ranty Friday is all about people shouting down the phone from the first syllable out of their mouths. You know those phone calls that start with somebody basically shouting at you down the phone. It has happened to me twice this week and I have had enough of it.
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The Gallery — Girls
Girls. I have spent a lot of time with girls recently. A great songstress once sang that sisters were doing it for themselves and by goodness I saw that in Ghana. All about girls and whilst I was never a fan of the Spice Girls, girl power. And as a mum of two girls I know how important it is to teach the next generation of girls that they can
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The Gallery — Noses
Team Honk was blown away by the post that Tara wrote saying that this week’s Gallery post was going to have Noses as theme in support of our trip to Ghana. So it seemed appropriate that I post this one. I fell in love with Veronica. We told her she was a star because we had seen her on the TV during Great British Bake Off. She
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Gone Girl — February 2013
I picked this book because, well I am a Gone Girl for the next few days. Though there the similarity ends. I have to confess to having read this book in January because I knew this month I wouldn’t have much time to read I knew it was a cracker. The blurb is as follows: