Picture of the day
There's nothing new about the greengrocer's apostrophe, of course, though it is particularly wounding when it's one's own nom de plume on which such an abuse is being inflicted.What I do like about this sign, spotted in the window of a St John's Wood boutique, though, is the owner's use of quotation marks. Possibly it's a straightforward misuse of punctuation (which can't be ruled out). But I prefer to think of it as an unusually self-aware and candid acknowledgement that the bargain-tastic scarves on offer might not be 100% "Cashmere & Silk" after all...
That's (probably) it from me till next week. There's a small election to attend to tomorrow, and after that I'm being whisked away for a romantic (I hope) wedding anniversary/sorry-about-all-the-campaigning weekend at a Mystery Location. Watch this space.
posted by Pashmina @ 3:51 PM
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14 Comments:
Good luck to Mr P, though I'm not sure the party deserves such wonderful supporters/candidates as the Pashmina family right now.
Though, when it comes down to it, I always find it very hard voting for anyone else (unless tactics are involved - or stickles are random).
Thanks Cello, I'm not sure they do either (other than at a local level, of course) but I'm stupidly loyal, me.
Maison!
Hope you have a vote avalanche and a great weekend.
Best of luck to Mr P, even though I'm, er, displaying a cleft mitten by, er, batting for the other side. And have a fabulous weekend too, I seem to remember last year's anniversary weekend being of a commendably high standard, so hope this year's is equally satisfactory!
Thanks both, I fear we need all the best wishes we can get...
I have medium-sized hopes for the weekend, as last year's event was organised by me. Hopefully Mr P will have picked up on the trend and acted accordingly. Well, you never know.
Pat, I wouldn't describe you as 'the other side'. More an alternative version of the same side.
So THAT'S why you're so committed to the cause. I didn't realise that Mr P was, like, a proper politician type.
Anyhow, I've clearly been spending too much time in the blogosphere, becasue I didn't think there was anything wrong with that apostrophe.
Eventually I realised that a pashmina is generally a thing, not a person's name.
I'm really very tired.
Not sure which side you are batting for, but good luck. Ooh, did I just out you as a lesbian?
There's a re-shuffle in the offing so perhaps "Pashmina's special promotion" is actually a portent of your (or Mr P's) elevation to high office?
I'm presuming you're batting for the team currently at the crease?? (Ooh! A cricketing metaphor). God knows they need to do something before we sleepwalk into a brave new bluey-green world with Chris Martin as Secretary of State for culture.
Did Mr P get in?
Pash's prediction for Hammersmith & Fulham was correct, gone Tory for the first time since 1968, despite my best leafleting efforts.
There's a splendid collection of misused quotation marks (but sadly no photos) at http://www.juvalamu.com/qmarks/
My favourite is:
"MILK" $1.99
Sadly, but perhaps inevitably, Mr P did not "get in". However due to his general fantasticness at running campaigns and selflessly getting his co-candidates "in" against all odds, he's a bit of a local hero nonetheless.
Terribly dull, politics.
Thank you missprism for alerting me to that site. I can only read it for a couple of minutes at a time, however, before I start to twitch involuntarily and have to go for a little lie down.
Ahh, see I thought that Mr P was standing himself. Must pay more attention to things, also must try to understand how politics work.
Actually that's me not explaining it very well - he did stand, just in what's known as a "split ward" (ie the incumbents were two of his lot and one of The Others), and as he was running the campaign which got the other two of his lot back in, despite The Others thinking they'd got all three spots, he got mucho kudos.
OK now I *really* didn't explain that very well.
Basically - he stood, he didn't get in, but the other two did, and as he did all the work and all the organising, everyone loves him now.
Frankly I wouldn't bother trying to understand how it all works, gave up on that years ago myself.
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