We will spare the blushes of the sender of the most graceless e-mail of the week, but it went like this: 'Dear Obiter. Would you be interested in running a feature on the efforts of the (firm name) team of runners in the Great Northern (sic) run event that has just taken place on Sunday? Given this is a major event for charity (50,000 runners) where it is reported that at least three runners [in fact, it was four] lost their lives, it was a huge undertaking of fitness for what are normally sedentary office workers!'