Morning, noon and night
Three random things I learned, or remembered, todayArchive for September 19, 2007
Vision aid overseas
NIGHT
I came across this website today after listening to morning TV.
It seems a practical, cheap way of bringing quality of life to a nation of people who simply need a pair of glasses, to read, to write and to thread a needle and allow them to keep working to earn money for their families.
The idea is to return old specs to an optician who participates in this programme. It will make a huge difference to quality to a life and may bring a whole family out of extreme poverty by allowing a breadwinner to work again.
Often the simplest ideas are the best.
Apostrophe
NOON
How do I know when to put an apostrophe in it’s?
A google search found a great website which tells all about this and much more.
The word it’s is always short for it is (as in it’s raining), or in informal speech, for it has (as in it’s got six legs).
The word its means ‘belonging to it’ (as in hold its head still while I jump on its back). It is a possessive pronoun like his.
Easy really!
Money supermarket
MORNING
I’ve just heard about a website that is rocketing up the popularity charts.
It is said that its success is because people are wanting more transparency regarding how they spend their money.
