Between blotch and blok

Or the Torygraph, anyway: Don Lawrence. For a while, we confess we continued getting Look and Learn only to read The Trigan Empire. (The same situation occurred several years later when we only bought White Dwarf to read a certain Mr Sanford's book reviews*).

Meanwhile, we're increasingly confused. The various newspapers' emailed headlines over the past few days have consistently referred to a "Pc's" murder. Ooh, we thought, when did "police constable" lose its second capital? Why? The main culprits were the BBC and the Indy. The BBC News Styleguide [sic] does not mention this specifically. The Guardian (whose headlines we no longer get) does have an entry in its style guide confirming our belief that it ought to be "PC" and not "Pc". Oddly the Torygraph used "PC Whatever" (and we ought to remember the unfortunate PC's name but we can't) with both initials capitalised. We have our suspicions that it's just another case of an apostrophe causing muddled thinking:maybe folk feel they can't have an apostrophe after a capital letter?

Tilly [Our LJ's been invaded! And we promised not to delete what was added!]

Oh dear, too much Eats, Shoots and Leaves. We have punctuational indigestion.

* Actually, we simply took to reading the relevant page at the newsagent's in Workington before not buying the copy.

On the card we received today from NZ, we got the following values:

• Legolas: 40c
• Gandalf: 1.50 NZD

The pretty scene of trees, seashore and rolling waves was only 10c.

Looby Loo, who has started to collect the things, has decided to stick "only Gandalf" into her book of postage stamps.