Ketlane

No errors with apostrophes.....

I remember an ad some years back for "Careers Adviser: Unemployment Specialist. "

Cliche gone wrong here

Way back in time we had some tritium-illuminated compasses - ex US Army. I believe I was told that as they were compasses and therefore not 'official radioactive sources for school experiments' they came under different regulations - they were more powerful than the sources the physics lab owned....

It all depends on who you are. The Church of England doesn't celebrate saints' days in Easter Week, so St George has his day on Monday of next week. St Mark gets postponed from Friday of this week to Tuesday of next week. However the Orthodox Church sticks with April 23rd. Wonderfully complicated.....

Memories of a school near ours - shaky financially with lowish numbers, rescued by parents and then collapsed again soon after. Sad bit has been going to the clearance auctions - some useful kit sometimes though you feel like a vulture feeding on the carcass. Saddest was to see the honours boards of sport captains and heads of school which nobody would buy but which would have sentimental value.

Haven't had an even mildly convincing one for ages....and the AI ones always fall over if you give unexpected answers.

Churchill got there first: “I do not consider that names that have been familiar for generations in England should be altered to study the whims of foreigners living in those parts. Where the name has no particular significance the local custom should be followed. However, Constantinople should never be abandoned, though for stupid people Istanbul may be written in brackets after it. As for Angora, long familiar with us through the Angora cats, I will resist to the utmost of my power its degradation to Ankara [....] “Bad luck…always pursues people who change the names of their cities. Fortune is rightly malignant to those who break with the traditions and customs of the past….Ankara is banned, unless in brackets afterwards. If we do not make a stand we shall in a few weeks be asked to call Leghorn ‘Livorno,’ and the B.B.C. will be pronouncing Paris ‘Paree.’ Foreign names were made for Englishmen, not Englishmen for foreign names. I date this minute from St. George’s Day.” -WSC, Minute to the Foreign Office, 23Apr45

I find holding the screen upside down while I type quite difficult.

Cheque? Not that any of them would recognise such a thing, nor know what to do with it?

Back in the very bad old days I learned letterpress printing (and even operated a Linotype). The printer who taught me gave two bits of advice - one is a coomonplace, never proofread your own work. The other was to hold the page upside down, so that you would be forced to look at each letter rather than looking at the text word by word.

Once you know in which local authority the death occurred, it's worth contacting their bereavement services (different titles in different councils, of course) - they can be very helpful indeed. If indeed there was no-one to arrange burial or cremation, the local authority will have stepped in. We attended a local-authority-managed burial last week - which was dignified and respectful, one member of the bereavement team there along with the undertakers.

Companies House - you can search by company officers. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/ LinkedIn; straightforward search on Facebook occasionally turns up trumps 192.com

Just a bit of proofreading would help....or not?