Grammar Police-the lesson for this week

My DH calls me the grammar police,because I automatically correct newsreaders or others on tv when they make a mistake and I make no apology for being that way;I have a very intense dislike of bad grammar and bad spelling and would love to take everyone back to around the 50's ( the best decade) when spelling, analysis and parsing were taught to everyone, as well as maths without the use of a calculator.
Having just heard yet again "I seen" instead of "I saw" I started making a partial list,just because I am in the mood to give an English lesson;(I have written the incorrect version first and yes I am aware some are not complete sentences,but I chose to write those as phrases).
Whilst some have come into common use they are still incorrect grammar or spelling.

* Would of/could of - should be would have or could have.
* Had have (eg If I had have known) - should be just Had (if I had known).
* I seen, and I done - should be I saw/I did.
* Another I absolutely cringe at-I would have went.Ouch!! I would have gone-please.

* People that - eg "lady that gave me the book". It is people who, or lady who.
* Team were/group were - should be team was,group was .Team and group are singular words, doesn't matter how many people are in the team, as the subject of the sentence is the word "team".
* Different to;another very frequently used incorrect term, it should be different from; (similar to, different from).
* Their and there in wrong places; their is possessive, "their house" "their car"; there is place, as in "over there".
* Lose/loose - this is probably the word I see more often than any other with incorrect spelling.
If you lose something it is lost; One O for lost,so one O for lose.
Loose means not tight, it has nothing to do with anything that is lost.Think of loose noose.
* Licence/license. In Australia the noun is licence. You are given a licence. License is a verb. You license someone to do something.
* Advice and advise; again advice (pronounced as in ice) is the noun,advise (pronounced as vize) the verb. You give someone advice; therefore you advise them.Easy to get correct if you remember "ice" is a noun.
* Lovelly instead of lovely.Almost as bad as luverly,but as I am married to a (former) Cockney I'll not say too much about that one.
* Definately instead of definitely.
* Devine instead of divine.We all know why that one if so easy to get wrong.
* What's with the writing of "then" for "than"?Another one that is being used a lot lately- it's "more than" not "more then".
* Bought and brought. You buy it, it is bought; you bring it, it's brought.
* Sort and sought- sort it out-highly sought after.
* Your and You're - your is possessive as in your house; you're means you are - you're going to need a hat.
* where and were; two totally different words;where are the keys; they were over there.

Pronunciations:
* Morals is not pronounced morales.
* Dissect is not pronounced die-sect. The word is diss(as in kiss) sect.
* Urine is not pronounced You-rhine. It is you-rin ( as in Rin Tin Tin).

Here endeth today's lesson. I will be giving tests later.

Happy Birthday Jacob

3 years already-how time flies. We had a lovely birthday celebration yesterday although Jacob's birthday is actually today.Jacob happily zoomed all over the house, driveway and daddy's shed on his new "big" bike, and we all ate too much. He is excited about his new little brother or sister in early February and can now feel the kicks.
To those who have enquired about my products,I have no KK instocks and no plans to sew any more at the moment.Knits- maybe after New Year,depending on how I feel.
People asked about my stepfather; he had surgery a few weeks ago on the bladder and was supposed to be having a weekly treatment for 6 sessions but he was suddenly rushed to Brisbane and now has a pacemaker;he is currently in hospital nearer his home and unfortunately is not at all well.The bladder treatments are on hold at the moment and we just watch and wait. Mum seems to be coping ok but is very very tired and I am worried about them both. She is 85 and my stepfather is 88; both had parents who lived into their 90's.

Progressing slowly

The PP website is now closed, and a large quantity of fabric will be making its way to a new home this week as long as I can find some more packing boxes!!I can see the floor in some rooms now,but still have a lot of tidying up to do. I may find fabric oddments as I progress and if so will list them somewhere,my Ozebaby store will remain open for now.
Possum Knits will not disappear and negotiations are underway to have KKs available again in the not too distant future;more on that later.
Last weekend DH and I celebrated our wedding anniversary with a short overnight trip to Brunswick Heads. We are always on the lookout for suitable caravan parks so had gone there specifically to check out 3. Only one is viable (everything is dependent on boat access for certain person's beloved tinny) so we hope to go back there next year so DH can again pretend to fish.
BH has a great hotel with a lovely beer garden, and with the best counter lunch I have ever tried; we both had fish and chips and it was fabulous. The area is quite pretty although it holds a few sad memories for me, of a beloved cousin who drowned some years ago, near the very dangerous bar.
We loved the beautiful water dragon (George) who greeted us at the door to our unit, and when we left the next day he popped his head up out of the roof guttering next door to say goodbye. We had several similar dragons here until the drought hit and we don't see as many now, but he was lovely and very friendly.
Now my aim is to finish clearng everything and then I hope I will have time to enjoy a few other things I have shelved over the last 6 years, including my patchwork and quilting. If the new bub is a girl I hope to be able to locate my unfinished smocking projects as well.

Updates regarding closure

The PP website will close on Friday;I feel like I am losing a limb and am so upset to see it go. Email contact is best made via my Ozebaby store from now on.
fabric is still being sorted and updates will be posted here or on OB,but I hope to have absolutely everything gone by the end of October.
I found a few nappies and they are going up on OB, along with some longies which were ordered and not paid for and therefore needed to be relisted.
Also check the pink minkee on Ozebaby auctions,it is a gorgeous piece of fabric, few days left to bid.
This weekend is our wedding anniversary so we are taking a brief break;then back to finalise everything.
I am looking forward to reclaiming my second bedroom, our entertainment room/granny flat downstairs and most of all my front verandah,which has been covered with cutting tables and boxes of fabric for years.

Hemp fabric/ and unpaid orders

I have put some hemp fabric up on my ozebaby store for a VERY reasonable price;proceeds to Breast Cancer research
This needs to go this weekend so if anyone would like some please buy it now as it won't be there long. It is a much better nappy fabric than bamboo will ever be.Make some cheap boosters!
Also I have been emailing a couple of people who promised to pay for items and have not yet done so; if this is you and you didn't get my emails can you please contact me; and if you did get my emails and forgot to reply can you please email me with yes or no as to whether you still want them; I don't like listing customs for sale in case there is a genuine reason why I have not heard back, but I do need to be answered.

October/Voucher Winners/Fabric to go

Thank you to everyone who entered the voucher competition, for those who found the icon,with prizes being $50 vouchers to spend at the store of their choice.
The winners of the last 2 vouchers are E.M and J.M.
I wish I could have given all of you a voucher but unfortunately it can't work that way.
Possum Pouches is now closed to all orders and this week I will be clearing out all remaining fabric and any made up items that have not been paid,no further emails will be sent regarding these payments .
These will go up on Ozebaby for a very short time only.
Those of you who emailed regarding fabric, I will send lists as soon as I have sorted it all out.
Updates will be posted here when I get a free minute.

Nappy Hunt -mini hunt solution

Well done to those who found the icon, the last 2 voucher prizes will be drawn in the next few days and announced on my blog so entries must reach me no later than this morning-finding the icon does not automatically enter you in the draw so if you found it and have not sent your details to me please do so today as I am away from this afternoon and won't see emails.
For those who did not quite make it here is the solution;
These were all cryptic (crossword) clues and you needed to take each word separately, not look for an "answer" to the whole clue.
The numbering system was the Nato Phonetic Alphabet, which was really just an identification of the order of the clues but also gave a veiled hint as to how to write in the final clue.
Clue ALPHA on home page-answer was FLAT (as a pancake).
This led to prefolds and flats page where there was a link in the word flat. You needed to enter password flat to get to next clue.
Clue BRAVO: Allows two to encircle. Answer was BRACELETS. Allows= lets; two=brace, giving bracelets which encircle an arm.
on Possum Panorama page link was in pink jewellery pic.
(This clue changed when answers were mistakenly posted on the forum-this was the glitch I referred to as a slip between cup and lip which some people thought was another clue, it wasn't)
Clue CHARLIE: Supports called before ten to one , Answer was LEGS.
Ten to one or (add) ten to one = eleven; in bingo callers call legs before the word eleven; supports= legs. Supports/called before/ten to one or Legs/called before/Eleven. Legs eleven.This was an easy one to guess without working out the explanation just by working out that supports are legs. Link was in a pic of knitted legs on the longies page-the link did change midway through when info was posted openly on another forum.
Clue DELTA: modern arrangement for news. I'm not sure why people stumbled on this one. The answer was INFORMATION, which s another word for news, Modern = in and arrangement = formation, in + formation = information.
This led to Product Info page where there was a sentence that was a different colour showing it was the link.Again this should have been easy to work out just by figuring news is information.
Clue ECHO: Any port in a storm. Answer was wetbag; a port ,abbreviated from the word portmanteau is a suitcase or bag (pack your port/pack your bag-I gave hints to ask an older person what a port was to them as the name was so commonly used once),storm-wet.
Accessories page you only had to click on pic of wetbag.
Clue FOXTROT:Another thing; this was the anagram indicated by the word another, meaning nother way of writing the word, and as there were only two words in this clue the anagram had to come from the letters in "thing" so the answer was NIGHT which was found on the AIO page where the night nappies were found-link was in one of the photos, the other photos took you mostly to gallery page.

Then we came to the final riddle- the second line said "you need to order them(letters) like one two three".
As I had Alpha Bravo etc instead of numbers the ordering became ABC; but you had to split all the words up and use the letters alphabetically- not the words; so the final password was
aaaabbceeeeffggghiiilllmnnnoorrsstttttw - the 39 letters from the words flat bracelets legs information wetbag night.

I will leave the hunt trail on the site over the weekend but it will soon be removed as Possum Pouches is closing shortly. Thank you to all the lovely hunters for your nice messages of support.If you have emailed and I have not yet replied I am not ignoring you but have been inundated with emails and will respond as soon as I can.