On June 18th, I joined in with an LJ meme where I wrote about my life ten years ago, five years ago, today, etc. My employer has had a somewhat chequered history, but as I wrote in the 'now' section, everything was on "a reasonably even keel" and had been for a while ( Read more... )

Most people in my office have their news site of preference open in the background during the day; most people sporadically comment on the headlines.

This morning has mostly been punctuated by people saying "Oh. I didn't know popes could resign."

To the people who keep complaining that I don't tell them when my sword-dance team are dancing: I've now added an RSS feed to the website, which should hopefully keep you updated ( Read more... )

I do try not to harp on about grammar. I really do. A lot of the time someone misses out an apostrophe and hey, it's wrong, but I knew what they meant. I know my punctuation isn't always perfect either.

But, dear BBC, you are a reputable journalistic institution. And that missing hyphen completely changed the meaning of the headline.

Child ( Read more... )

Well.

I didn't see that coming.

Stone Roses reforming

And recording new material?

Bloody hell.

Really??

Once - long, long ago - a major news event would occur and there'd be the usual comment of "... and I wonder how long it'll be before we start hearing the jokes about it ( Read more... )

All week I've been reading NI in the papers as Northern Ireland, and constantly getting confused.

For today's BBC headline, NI riots leads to 26 arrests, I finally managed to remember to read it as News International.

(And while we're on, shouldn't it be "riot leads" or "riots lead"?)

So, as of this weekend, Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper[*] will cease publication.

( Ding, dong, the witch is dead, everybody party! )

Those of you who know me will not be surprised to learn that I'm now taking more of an interest in the coroner's inquest into the shooting of Mark Saunders than might be expected.

A week ago, one of the firearms officers was accused of hiding song titles in the evidence he gave to the coroner.

( Always have a quotation to hand. It saves original thinking. )

Funniest thing on the news today: M&S anti-cellulite knicker claims 'misleading'

...contains the wonderful paragraph:

"The £29.50 Anti-Cellulite Firm Control Waist and Thigh Clincher pants contain vitamin E, aloe vera and caffeine."

Caffeinated pantsI appreciate that cellulite blights some people's lives but really... who thought caffeinated ( Read more... )