BEDA #16: Yellow Bull Clips

Firstly, I have fallen a day behind in the Blog-Every-Day-of-April-Or-You-Shan’t-Have-Achieved-Anything-This-April quest. But I shall work my way back, by blog­ging twice in one day.

And sec­ondly, I vis­ited the lovely and polite peo­ple at Hardie Grant Egmont yes­ter­day. Among other things, they gave me the final pages of Great­est Blog­ger to proof­read. When I got home I dis­cov­ered that once again (it has hap­pened before as well) the proof was held together by a YELLOW bull clip.

yellow-bull-clip

Being the nerd (and office-supply enthu­si­ast) I am, I was over­whelmed by the con­sid­er­ate nature of the edi­tors at Hardie Grant. And I have updated the descrip­tion of Hardie Grant Egmont in the spiel about my book to include ‘con­sid­er­ate’. Cos I’m just feel­ing that way.



5 Comments

Hmmm, accord­ing to your spiel they’re still just lovely and polite.

The next time I see one of them I’ll be like, ‘oh you’re that lovely per­son from Hardie Grant, and you’re polite too. But I’m not sure if you’re con­sid­er­ate.’ And then I’ll glare at them darkly whilst try­ing to estab­lish if they’re con­sid­er­ate or not.

Tis a muddy and pedan­tic world we live in, #3.

Yes, it took me a few min­utes to update their con­sid­er­ate­ness but it’s done now. And now you must treat them with much more respect than you treat me with. OK, House­mate #2?

Prime Minister

Do you know why it’s yel­low? Because it matches the cover. I don’t put ‘anally reten­tive’ as a skill on my CV for nothing.

You’re really quite sim­i­lar to the Prime Min­is­ter of Aus­tralia in that way, Prime Minister.

LPC

Say­ing it ‘matches’ the cover might be a bit strong. Com­ple­ments, perhaps?

I don’t put ‘pedant’ as a skill on my CV for nothing…