Call me Sir

I have today received the exciting news that I am now an advanced member of the Society for Editors and Proofreaders (SfEP). I had to find a couple of referees, explain how I'd been trained, and tot up a huge number of editing hours on respectable jobs to attain these giddy heights. Or so they say. In fact, I think it's all in the form-filling. If you can manage to fill the 'advanced membership' form in under three days without the use of Tippex, you probably deserve instant advanced membership.
   Of course, just last week SfEP put the upgrade form, much simplified, up online, and the manual form-filling has gone the way of all things. Typical. But at least I can say 'Well, I became an advanced member when advanced membership meant advanced membership. It wasn't so easy in those days. Why, I remember back in '07 - or was it '08 ...' I bet my children are already thinking up excuses not to visit for a few months, until the excitement has died down.
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