We made an early start to meet the other Batemans Bay Bushwalkers at Holmes Lookout for the long walk down to Chinamans Point and back. We waited for an hour before I thought that something must be amiss and checked the date - we were one whole day early! The walk is not until tomorrow!
Being already halfway to Batemans Bay we kept going, and Padma did her usual grocery shopping which meant she stocked up on everything as if there was going to be an outbreak of some sort of virulent disease and all the shops were going to be shut for the next three months, while I sniffed around the bookshelves in the Vinnies and the Salvos op-shop.
I was lucky to find this wonderful little hardcover book, "The Aitch Factor" written by the Macquarie Dictionary editor Susan Butler, who's a woman after my own heart because she cares about the 's plurals. As she writes, "I would recommend losing the apostrophe completely rather than give in to the 's plurals". I am with you, Susan! What a find!
Never mind that we spent an hour at Holmes Lookout; never mind that I wasn't at my computer when BHP hit $54.20. This little book for all the word warriors, punctuation pedants and everyday-lovers of language out there makes up for all the time we lost and all the money I lost.
