Today is the first day of the New Year and my son wanted to take down the Christmas decorations. He has autism and believes the tree, etc., should go up on 1st December and co me

down on 1st January. That’s fine by me.

This year, like all the others before, I have somehow managed to miss one single decoration. As I’ve already put the rest away in the loft, it will have to remain alone until I next have reason to get the ladder out.

It’s strange how I missed  it, but it’s the same with my typing mistakes. I can spot someone else’s typos from 1000 metres (not really, but they do seem to jump out of the page at me), whereas I can triple check my work and still miss some of the misspellings.

Apparently, it’s because we see what we expect to read and as long as the beginning and end of the word are correct, our brains make allowances for the rest. Not good  news for lovers of correct English, me thinks.

However much I hate to make spelling mistakes, sometimes  they can be beneficial, for if it wasn’t for a “typo” this blog wouldn’t exist.

The reason?

In my haste to sign up for >a particular program, I accidentally combined the Christian name of one marketer with the Surname of another. This resulted in the sale  being credited to the person whose Christian name I had used – yes, Alex Jeffreys.

So you see I’m actually here by default, and whilst, at the time I was a bit disappointed because I’d perceived the other marketersbonus to be better, I certainly have no regrets.

It’s what I’ve come to know over the years – things happen for a reason!

Stay positive and best wishes for 2009.

May all your dreams come true.

Jean Shaw

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