I realised, while writing earlier, that my punctuation skills are completely hopeless. I understand the basic rules but still have a very sketchy idea of when to use semi-colons, hyphens, etc... even commas! For a nineteen year old studying a degree at a very good university it is really quite embarrassing.
I am sure this is the kind of thing that they are supposed to teach you in school. Although, I think that was the year that the ceiling in our English classroom leaked into a tin bucket at the back of the room and sounded like someone peeing, and we discovered that if we made paper aeroplanes and threw them out of the window you could nea