How copywriters and editors can foil the scammers Wouldn’t it be marvellous if there was a stealthy punctuation expert zipping around removing unnecessary apostrophes and commas? Wherever someone got a their, they’re or there confused, Grammar Guy/Girl (delete as applicable) (GG for short) would leap into action. Oh, my. It would be wonderful. GG would […]
How to have a productive weekend
It was Friday again. That sweet spot in the week when the toil is done and anything is possible. Heading home to treat the kids to a pizza and me to a night off making the supper. I didn’t even get annoyed by the people on the train with the bags. You know the ones, […]
Airing my dirty laundry just about everywhere
It began with a most insignificant click. Then the lights went out and it was apparent – after several optimistic attempts to ignore all evidence – that the washing machine was, in fact, a dampening and flooding the floor machine. There are some definitive parenting moments. The first steps, the gummy smiles, the first time […]
285/365 Nut waving but drowning…
Clearly I don’t literally mean the waving of nuts – edible or otherwise. That would be silly. It just seems like a bit of a busy kind of week, the kind when it’s been all about paddling like fury just to stay in one place. You know the sort. It’s been the Panther’s first full week in […]