The Barnet Eye - An apology, a correction and yes I am a moron and an idiot

 For the last few weeks, I've been giving it large. I have been promising you the 500th Saturday list! I promisted that I would give a list of all 500 blogs. I started complining the list in the week. To my horror, I found that, rather annoyingly in October 2022, I went from blog #361 to #382leaving a gap of 20 blogs. There is no excuse for such slipshod blogging. There is no excuse (other than dyslexia, alcohol, short sightedness and getting constantly nagged for breakfast by the missus and the dogs). On making this discovery, I realised that I couldn't have the big celebration planned. Even more pressing though, what should I do? I could either renumber all blogs or simply add blogs #362 to #381, albiet out of sequence. 

After giving it much thought, I have decided to simply add the blogs, albiet out of sequence. The will appear in sequence in the #500 blog list. I have another 200 or so to check and it is always possible there are more gaps. I have also found a couple of duplicate numbers. These I have amended. It is all rather annoying.  I will restart the series next week with blog #362, which will be my top ten biggest blogging cock ups. 

I had a lunchtime meeting with a journalist from the Camden New Journal yesterday. Itw as nothing to do with blogs or journalism, but the subject of our old blog friend Brian Coleman came up. It made me realise just how boring the GLA constituency of Barnet and Camden has become since Labour won the seat in 2012. Brian was manna from heaven for bloggers and journalists. He also was a major force in me making sure everything I wrote was accurate. When he was GLA rep, I got several snotty emails threatening legal action if I didn't correct a blog. Generally, the errors were highly pedantic. As I recall one was along the lines "In your blog, you claimed a figure of £336,000 had been paid, when in fact it was £363,000, Mr Coleman demands an apology and a retraction". In actual fact the figure made the story reflect even more badly on him, so I was happy to thank the lackey for his diligence. I asked him to pass on my fulsome apologies to Coleman for any offence caused. And of course, I updated the blog. Of course, the reason Brian Coleman asked for the apology was so he could say "Roger Tichborne is always getting things wrong and making things up, I have the apology to prove it!". His Trumpesque relationship with honesty and the truth was always fascinating. 

But it did make me more careful. It seems that the lack of a Brian Coleman has made my standards slip. So there you are. I apologise and will try and do better in future. Here is a song that seems appropriate for this moment, given my abject failure to count properly!