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Potting Shed
Been a while since I last added an entry here. It's been a busy time, both at work and at home. Of late we've had the kitchen re-done, a potting shed installed and there will be a brand new patio starting next weekend. Today was a good day at home with Alexander. We spent a considerable amount of time playing trains and building a railway with his Thomas the Tank Engine train set. He thoroughly enjoys it and has just started calling the trains 'choo choo'. Not his first word, but in the first dozen for certain. We also spent some time in the garden, me more than him as I pottered about in the potting shed while he had an afternoon nap. I got it reasonably sorted out for actually potting plants. Took the seedling compost and small pots…
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Is Themself a word?
I am a civil servant and in the course of my work I was writing a document for publication (a Fire & Rescue Service circular). In that draft I used the word 'themself' because it was a gender neutral third person singular. I got back an e-mail from a colleague informing me that I couldn't use 'themself' because it wasn't a word. Here's an edited highlight of the e-mail (names removed to protect the guilty and innocent alike). >>> Someone 14:47 04 Jul 06 >>> There is no such word as "themself" >>> Themself 04/07/06 15:43:10 >>> I disagree on the existence of 'themself' I use it all the time. Perhaps it is a Scottish word. >>> Someone 16:07 04 Jul 06 >>> "Themself" is not in the Oxford English Dictionary. The Chambers Dictionary says it is best avoided. And Fowler's Modern…
Another Short Lived Blog?
OK. Playing about with various bits of blog software because I want to try it out and figure that this has got to be a better way to do things than creating static web pages and also having to edit stuff lots. I can write html using nothing more than a text editor, but that's so last