The time has come to end this blog. Not because the conspirators are making me or anything like that. But because I’ve come to the conclusion they are winning, and blogging about it won’t change a thing.
You have now reached the end of the blogosphere as I know it. Please click on the back button on your browser.
Many thanks.
Great news this week: the recession is at an end!
Phew! To think how worried we all were last October when I started this blog, about the credit crunch and what sort of impact it might have on editorial staff and standards. I know I wasn’t the only one who feared that business people – in their collective madness – might cut back on copy-editing and proofing. Fortunately, the recession is over and we can look forward to plenty of work as the number of B2B websites and publications increases. › Continue reading
The wind is howling outside my window and I sit at my computer coughing and trying to catch my breath. Despite the cold , the rain and relentless wind, I’m hot, burning up, and my head and muscles ache. I keep thinking I should eat something but I’m just not hungry and I think there’s a swelling in my throat. I don’t feel at all well. May be I should call someone – someone who could help me? › Continue reading
It’s weird how when people go to work – whether it’s happens when they get dressed in the morning or walk through the doors of their office building – they start to get a bit oldy-worldy with their word choices. It’s as if this weekend you might visit the Ideal Home Exhibition, purchase chattels and fine adornments to place upon the mantel within your abode, and then go to work on Monday and start talking normally – only it’s the other way round.
A few years ago I had to go to a ‘team-building away-day’. We all trooped into this conference room and helped ourselves to meagre cupfuls of cheap, weak coffee and miniature chocolate croissants. Then some guy in a loud silky shirt and a wacky tie introduced himself. He told us the day was going to be enormous fun (he turned out to be wrong about that) and then he started talking about “working smart”. › Continue reading