Mj’s Blog

Now I might have mentioned this before but my grammar and spelling are pretty crap - when I write these posts I have to re-read them about three/four times before I can publish them, while making corrections to my grammar as best as I can. Studying for my OU course has now brought this back to my attention as my first piece of ‘published’ webpage was moderated and curses, my grammar issues came up. The layout and the basic linking throughout the page were fine but he spotted one grammatical error in my explanation of why I’m doing the course. Not sure why I’m so rubbish at grammar and spelling, surely these are basic things I should have learnt at school. Was my school (senior and junior) so bad that I didn’t learn where to put a comma or the learn the difference between bought or brought (without really thinking about it). Then again I never did learn the ‘times table’ either. Can I blame my parents for this lack of knowledge or am I just too stupid…

From now on all my coursework on my OU course will go through my ‘editors’ that I use for sending out company-wide emails and I have dug out ‘Eats, Shoots & Leaves’ by Lynne Truss on grammar that I have had on my bookshelf for ages. The 100 Big Read got in the way so I have never read this but it was highly recommended by my colleague. Spelling I’m not sure what to do about this as I use spell check on everything - God bless spell checks. Back to maths - the other day I tried to recite the times table while running. I got as far as 4x before getting out of breath and decided that concentrating on my breathing might be healthier! I think my running is improving (finally) as managed to do my usual run and got halfway round without feeling too knackered. Can’t wait to feel like that all the way round my circuit.