....The Time Team's royal dig, which I recorded some time ago.
Now avid readers will know that in no way am I a ranty moantastic kind of guy and instead prefer to look to the good and perhaps the great in peoples activities.......HOWEVER.... I spotted a real howler whilst watching the prog.
If you had've watched it you would know that various areas of royal palaces were being investigated. Buck House, Windsor Castle and in Scotland, Hollyrood Palace.
As is the way on these live events a scrolling update was to be seen at the bottom of the screen.
I was mortified to read, when handing over from one site to another, the following, " and that's all fromm Hollyrood for the moment, and now to are team on the lawn of Buckingham Palace".
'ARE' team, fuck me has this secretary/continuity person got the job on the strength of 'A' level results in Home Economics, P.E. and Walking in a Straight line?
I would like to add my voice to those of educationalists who assert that there is NO dumbing down of educational standards. No sir, not here, nope.
On a totally different tack, it is Star Trek's fortieth birthday today.
Forty years of boldly splitting infinitives and the like.