How big is your personal bubble?

Friendship means not invading each other’s personal space

We got a bit sidetracked by the notion of ‘personal space’ while researching dignity, respect and what constitutes good manners.

Different cultures have different ideas of how close is too close. And it turns out that we Brits are not the most stand-offish, […]

2019-10-22T15:50:18+01:0022 October 2019|Dignity, Tips and tricks|

So last century! But the rules of punctuation and grammar still apply (mostly)

Punctuation: the difference between ‘Let’s cook mother’ and ‘Let’s cook, mother’.

While celebrating Punctuation Day on September 24, Ashford’s resident punctuation enforcer stumbled across an old notepad. The faded jotter, whose tatty pages are stained with ancient coffee cup rings, dates from our Editor’s previous life as a newspaper hack. […]

2019-10-01T16:24:46+01:001 October 2019|Tips and tricks, Writing and editing|
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