Archive for March, 2010
K-Rudd local love
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The Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd was on my home patch today.
He rocked up to a popular shopping precinct and was greeted by a throng of media (I was one of them)Â and locals (I was also one of them) who were snapping away with their mobile phones and thrusting their kids forward for the [...]
March 30, 2010
Posted in: Lifestyle, Society 
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Why I feel sorry for young people: part 1
I was watching a music channel countdown of the top 20 hits of the 80s the other night. “Walk Like an Egyptian” by The Bangles came on and it reminded me of the times I would get up early to tape music off the radio.
I can clearly remember one morning desperately waiting to tape “Walk [...]
March 23, 2010
Tags: technology, tweens Posted in: Parenting, Society One Comment
It’s a possessive apostrophe
I noticed this classic grammar clanger on a promo for ER on television the other week:
I can remember my first weekly grammar test for my journalism course at university. I made this mistake too and my lecturer Sally White,  wrote “Sally sitting down because Sally feels ill” and she drew a little picture of her sitting [...]
March 6, 2010
Posted in: spelling and grammar 6 Comments
