Excerpt from: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-25234883

But for his admirable ability to confess his own absent mindedness, the last work goes to Don Currie from Edinburgh.

“A few years ago I went out to the car with my new tax disc, sat in the passenger seat in order to extract the old one from its curling plastic holder, and replaced it with the new one. At this moment a neighbour came past and engaged me in inconsequential chat, then wandered off. This had distracted me a bit and, on auto-pilot, I removed the disc from the holder (which was the new one I had just put in), replaced it with the one in my hand (which was the old one I had just taken out) and wandered back into the house, where I ripped up the tax disc I was carrying (ie the new one – are you still with me?) and threw it in the bin. Several weeks later I noticed the disc displayed on my windscreen was severely out of date. Obviously no traffic wardens or police constables had noticed, and I was able to apply for a replacement disc, upon payment of an admin fee. Not my finest hour.” #errordiary

@cateematthews Not forgetting those who tempt fate by being critical of candidates’ spelling, whilst misspelling misspell? #errordiary

My search history suggests I regularly forget what the letter ‘v’ means. But really, it’s me not quite pasting things correctly #errordiary