I went out with a guy last year who, and this is being completely overly polite, was an awful speller and had no idea what punctuation was. Our relationship (if you could call it that), was basically based on me staying up till the early hours of the morning checking his work because he was illiterate. He claimed he was dislexic but he had never been tested, and as I said his problems went beyond the odd spelling mistake. The thing is I am not the world’s most confident speller, however if I am unsure I check and learn it, will write the word down and write the meaning so that I know for future reference and I can’t understand, especially in this day and age, how people are such terrible spellers. I can imagine that a lot of it is down to our new technology, it is so easy now to click on things and just accept what we read, but does nobody read books anymore? Or actual newspapers? Does no one take note of the differences in there, their, they’re? Or knew and new? My boyfriend got that one wrong recently…. it bugs me a lot. Also text speak. Now I admit that I used to be just as bad as the next person in using it, but then I got my blackberry and I couldn’t be bothered to be lazy anymore…. I suppose that contradicts what I have said about technology however I used mine to better my writing and spelling. Because I write so many essays, it is really important to me that things are written correctly and it annoys me when even I get things wrong!! Sorry what a rant! Anyway, I have offered to start looking at people’s work to help them and myself, because you can never over practise writing correctly and getting spelling correctly. E-mail me if you want anything checking, I promise I will not rant at you 🙂 xxxxxxx
What a week!!!!!!
11 Dec 2011 Leave a comment
in General day to day stuff, Me and Jake
Hello all!!!!
Well this has been a really amazing week!! I have never felt so blessed in my entire life and I owe it all to my wonderful family and friends. I got wonderful gifts yes, but the best thing about it was being able to spend it with all the people I really love and there is still more next week in Tunbridge Wells!! From having my boyfriend spoil me, to having my sister here all week and a wonderful meal on Thursday, it has been just utterly amazing. And the week finished with my friend Gigi’s concert. I have never heard her sing but wow she was just totally mind blowing!!!! We all had a wonderful time and her parents came up too and they are wonderful 🙂 My darling sister Molly got me more make-up from The Bodyshop so I am extremely grateful!! I got some cook books too, I am soooooo excited because one of them is all stir frys and I totally love experimenting!!!! It means I get to go to the Chinese shop in Bangor so very exciting!!! I got lovely fluffy socks and Kindles ( but you already know that!!) and it has just been amazing!!
I also did my radio show totally solo on Thursday!!!! It was amazing I felt like Fearn Cotton but obviously not as glamourus lol it was great though!! I really want to work in radio so this is great practise for me and the poeple I do work with are wonderful!
And now for news on Jake!!!! His walking is coming along brilliantly and he is really beginning to talk a lot it’s so wonderful to listen to him. He attempts to say names and understands everything you say, he especially knows how to say no and decide what he wants to do for himself which can of course get a little annoying lol, and he is also becoming really independant which breaks my heart a little. I have worked so hard to look after us both and though I have a great support system it is just us, and I hate that he is already getting to the point where he doesn’t think he needs me anymore. The worst bit this week was going to collect him from nursery and them telling me that he was sent to the bigger room with the older kids, as he will move there when he turns two in January, and him totally taking it in his stride!!! I shed a little tear, I am not ready for him to grow up just yet and to have to deal with all the things that come with him growing up, such as the ‘Daddy’ questions… It worries me to think that one day he may question how I brought him up and whether my decisions were the right ones, even though I know they were because they felt right, but is that enough? Jake is currently sitting on my lap as I type this and giving me cuddles (he’s feeling poorly) and pointing to his highchair and saying chair and requesting to sit in it, whilst coughing all over me and letting his nose run down his chin 🙂 its the moments like this that melt my heart and remind me that I am much luckier than most.
And on that note I must be off!! Enjoy your Sundays everyone xxxxxxxxx
