Sometimes putting it in plain English isn’t – well as plain as you think it’s going to be. Just as I’ve been worrying about my emails being misinterpreted and my texts not saying exactly what I mean, even though I use proper words and punctuation, now it’s just been pointed out to me that my farewell to Roger Trayhurn yesterday made it sound as if he had died!

I blame it on all the cemetery visits I’ve made recently and swotting up on funerary iconography. Perhaps I’ve been overdoing it.

To anyone I might have alarmed, including Roger, it’s not the case at all, he’s just retired - that is 1 a. leave office or employment, esp. because of age b. cause (a person) to retire from work - according to the Oxford Dictionary of Current English.

Whew!

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