Like most businesses across the globe, Right Words went quiet with the onset of the global financial crisis in 2007. It was deja vu, in that we lived through the Asian crisis in the late 1990s and remember how work suddenly disappeared then. It took several years for business to recover fully and we expect the pattern to be similar now.

In the meantime, though, life has not been quiet. Over the past 18 months, Alison's mother, stepmother, father-in-law and aunt have all passed away, leading Alison and Steve to decide to move north to be near Steve's mother. For the past year, they have focused on selling assets, and renovating and selling the house in Dunedin. In early July, they and cat Alex undertook the four-day journey from Dunedin to Ngunguru, a small town 20 kilometers north of Whangarei. Alison is greatly enjoying her new home in the country and in the warmer climate.

With her, Alison brought the Right Words 'office'. Right Words was born in Dunedin in 1987 and had an established presence there, so it may be a surprise to some readers to discover that it is no longer based there, but at the other end of the country.

But despite the change in physical location, there is no change in Right Words' services. We still write, edit and proofread as before. And while Alison has been following the sun, Robyn has been planning a climate change of her own - a move from Nelson back to, yes, Dunedin, where the weather is chilly but the people are warm.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

In September, Right Words was approached by the Treasury to proofread a document containing the proceedings of a conference on macroeconomic policy, hosted jointly by the Treasury and the New Zealand Reserve Bank.

Right Words worked with the Bank's editors to proof the layout of the document and ensure that it was consistent with the Bank's corporate standards. The document was "Testing stabilisation policy limits in a small open economy: proceedings from a macroeconomic policy forum". It is published on the Bank's website.

Right Words was delighted to help out and looks forward to working on other documents in the future.

One of Right Words' long-standing clients is the New Zealand Treasury. The Treasury is a pleasure to work for - the people we deal with are always friendly, clear with their instructions and realistic on turnaround times! We appreciate that and always look forward to working with them when they have jobs for us.

In the past few weeks, we've done a couple of editing and proofing jobs, and we are about to embark on another this week. One of the papers we proofread was a Policy Perspectives Paper, "Environmental Risk Management in New Zealand - Is There Scope to Apply A More Generic Framework?". We checked the document for spelling and punctuation errors and ensured that it conformed to the Treasury style guide.

The other paper we proofread was the Treasury's "Statement on the Long-Term Fiscal Position 2006", which examines what New Zealand's fiscal position might look like over the next 40 years. In addition to proofing the paper and checking it against the Treasury style guide, we also edited the Preface and Executive Summary.

Alison is going to be in Wellington for the first two weeks of September, visiting clients and putting her feet up. She'll be staying with her brother, who has just moved to Waikanae, and she's looking forward to taking some walks on the beach. While she's away, Right Words can still be contacted in the usual way.

Welcome to the revamped Right Words website!

We are not beyond admitting that we shamelessly neglected our old site. And its style betrayed the fact that it was created a decade ago.

The amazing thing is that, despite this, we still regularly received e-mails from people congratulating us on the site and saying how much they used it.