Yesterday I received a communication from the CEO of a peer-to-peer money lending firm. The newsletter was so badly constructed and such a dog's dinner that I had to write to her with a point by point comment about syntax, grammar, construction, layout. Now I know that you don't write to the CEO of a company telling them that their newsletter is rubbish but I know that if I don't do it no one...
Month: February 2017
reflections on travel
I have just finished review number 610 on my Trip Adviser page. Those who enjoy travel may care to read my utterances. I started taking this website seriously about 2008 when I began to realise how valuable it was to read the experiences of those who had travelled to a place that I might have been wanting to experience. We all want different things when we travel and reading reviews is quite an...
The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
First of all, just to remind you of the derivation of this phrase which I quote from Wikipedia: The man on the Clapham omnibus is a hypothetical ordinary and reasonable person, used by the courts in English law where it is necessary to decide whether a party has acted as a reasonable person would – for example, in a civil action for negligence. The man on the Clapham omnibus is a reasonably...
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