This piece started out in embryonic form with the much more aggressive title of Ranty McRantface, a somewhat tongue-in-cheek reference to what I accept as my unreasonable pedantry. However, over the last few months it’s mellowed. I’ve mellowed, quite why I’m not sure but it makes for a more relaxed approach to life, so I’m not complaining.
I grew up in a house and in a standard nuclear family in the 70s and 80s, where books…
