By "best" I don't mean most expensive, or what you have constantly been dropping hints about wanting; what I mean is the one you would not have bought for yourself but somebody guessed it was the sort of thing that would suit you fancy. In my case it was one of the gifts from my elder daughter. It is one of those desk calendars with a quotation on every page. But in this case it is a reproduction of Lynne Truss' book "Eats, Shoots and Leaves". Brilliant, just the thing. If you've not heard of it, the sub-title gives it away - "The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation".
The downside of this for CBFers is that, month by month, my obsessions will probably shift from full stops (periods), to commas, to apostrophes and so on. I may well launch a poll in February inquiring:
Do you use the Oxford comma?
1. Yes;
2. No;
3. I am inconsistent in its use;
4. I don't know what the hell you are going on about.
(My answer, by the way, will be number 2).
Did you get a present this Christmas, or an earlier one, that showed the giver knew you only too well?
