Ever sent an email and suddenly realised you have made a ridiculous howler. God it’s embarrassing, and what to do? Follow it up with an immediate apology thereby drawing attention to your stupidity or the fact that you are losing the plot. Hope that it will not be noticed? Pretend it never happened?

I always read my emails carefully before sending them, or so I think,  but no matter how I hard I try to get it right from time to time after I have pressed send and there is a sudden flash in my  WHOOPS, done it again. Or a day later on rereading, I will see the thing that I have overlooked staring out at me in ten foot high neon letters.

Am I losing the plot or is it just always trying to do things too quickly, everything seems to be moving too quickly. I am irritated by feeling the need to answer emails immediately, but I still do it. Why am I unable to slow down.

Is it me? That sounds like some old fart saying ‘I don’t believe it’.

Looking back I could cringe at the idiotic mistakes I have made, the most recent was writing  to a client about Tesco Nectar Card, association of ideas or getting my wires crossed. In the context of my email not good.

On the plus side with everything moving at such a pace in this increasingly mad world, I suppose these things are soon forgotten. I hope!

I can never say or write ‘Whoops’ without thinking of Le Chiffre to Bond at the card table  in Casino Royale, or docking in Genoa when the pilot hit another ship and with an almighty crunch and the Scouse quarter master at the wheel just casually murmured it.