A patriot is someone who loves his or her country and an expatriate someone who lives or works abroad.

However, there is no such thing as an ex-patriot, as our Voice of the Argus claimed in a comment on February 19 about that very British (and Sussex) product, Shippam's paste.

Two expats now home again - David Greig, from Goring, and Pat Finch, from Brighton - both spotted the error with Mrs Finch adding: "The Argus is not the only one to make this error - it is very common."

I enjoyed her payoff more: "I love your column, in fact the whole Argus.

"Keep up the good work!" Flattery, Mrs F, flattery. . .

My good and corrective friend Tony Booker now reveals he is a wine buff too after spotting in Francis Young's column last weekend that a wine ". . . harvested in 1907 was actually not bottled until November 1999. This makes one heck of a difference."

"It certainly would," says Tony, realising the column should have read it was 'harvested in 1997', "It would be ideal sprinkled in chips or green salad!"

My apologies to Michael Munday who says it was he who designed the Brighton Festival poster and not, as we reported on Monday, Richard Wolfstrome, who designed the brochure.

It can't have escaped many readers' attention the fuss caused by Audrey Simpson's eating out review of Leone's restaurant.

However, we fuelled the fire when we published Alwyn Miller's letter defending the establishment and saying he went there for his 17th birthday when it should have said he took 17 people there for his 70th!

"At that age I couldn't possibly have afforded it and could not have had a drink," says Alwyn. "I would be grateful if you would print this in case anyone who read the letter who knows me thinks I have finally flipped!"

Our story on February 8 about some teenage boys fined for riding their bicycles on a pavement attracted considerable comment on our Opinion page.

It also angered emailer Michael Fearn who felt it was it too sympathetic to the youngsters and pointed out that the first paragraph said all four boys had been fined when in fact one of them wasn't.

This "poor standard of journalism" would, he imagined, have left the police feeling "rather aggrieved".

Tough, but probably fair, Mr Fearn. A little like the police in this case.