sipar69

Yeah, I was actually just thinking with people losing lives and incomes left right and centre, a “me” here or and “I” there, a missing comma etc. doesn’t really matter in the grand scheme of things does it? I hope you, your family and everyone on the forum are doing ok in these in crazy times we live in now. Peace!

You’ve rather missed the point I was making about the scope for a degree of flexibility between perfect grammar and context in modern language. If I chose to be the self-appointed punctuation liaison officer, you also omitted the full stop after ‘grammar’ and, preferably, the comma after ‘Sorry’.

'Me and the management team.' would be ok really. 'The management team and I' is grammatically correct but sounds quite formal in this context. Just avoid 'myself and 'yourself' when 'me' or 'you' will do.

Your “facts” are way off mate. Public sector employees, many of whom are working harder than ever in this crisis, pay exactly the same taxes and at the same rates as private sector sector employees. Also worth remembering that most public sector annual salary increases have been limited to 1% for over a decade since the financial crash (so a pay cut every year when compared to inflation etc.). The more people whose pay is cut the harder the economy will be hit. Now is not the time for finger pointing and resentment.

I had what I thought was flu about a week before the first cases were reported in the UK. No fever or shortness of breath, but aches, shivers, persistent cough, and huge fatigue that ended up with me being signed off work for two weeks. My GP said she thought it was flu but I do wonder now......

I’m head of an office that deals with complaints about judges. Fortunately, we can work effectively from home. (I thought we’d see a downturn in complaints when people have other things on their mind, but the workload has stayed fairly constant.) I really feel for all the people whose businesses and incomes are being affected by this situation.

The smell goes eventually.

Get a Zed but please contemplate one in a less boring colour ;).

Nothing wrong with a bit of football in the garden if you have a suitable garden, but the gardens where we lived were tiny and every time the little sh*t kicked the ball hard against the fence it sounded like a gunshot. His other exploits included hitting our elderly neighbour on her back with a cricket ball. No apology from the parents.