New Year’s Eve…

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
a stately pleasure-dome decree,
where Alph, the sacred river, ran
through caverns measureless to man
down to a sunless sea,
so twice five miles of fertile ground
with walls and towers were girdled round.
and there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
where blossom’d many an incense-bearing tree.
And here were forests as ancient as the hills,
enfolding sunny spots [...]

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HTNOM TSRIF EHT FO YAD HTHGIE EHT NO GNIGWALB MORF ERITER YAM I
ITJDE PEXND SOKNW HEZTH ERUMY RIPOJ ASYUP PLWYL AKSTS
And… no… I haven’t been hitting the juice. (It does make sense…. eventually) No prize… but what am I saying? Any budding Bonds…. Spooks out there?
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PS… I have also managed to place myself on The [...]

Saturday Review: Corruption free New Year Honours edition…

I survived the night after my bout of bird ‘flu and walked down to the Hothouse Cafe for espresso and a read of the papers. This morning it was - The Mirror and The Independent. It was still dark, but it usually is at this time of year when I go for breakfast.
A quick [...]

I have been poleaxed…

I read tonight… that not content with giving a knighthood to Parkinson, those who dispense these things, now that we can’t buy them anymore, may be adding ‘interest’ to the list with a surprise award for Tim Henman. Telegraph story
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I have got bird flu - and, news of a possible knighthood for ‘Tiger Tim’, hero [...]

Boxing Day…

Issac Newton was born on the 25th December (under the Julian calendar then in use), a birth celebrated by fellow UK blawger and rational man, John Bolch of Family Law on his blog this Christmas Day.
One of Isaac Newton’s most important laws was the Universal Law of Gravitation: F = Gm1m2 / r2. [...]

Christmas…

Without in any way wishing to upstage The Queen, who is now vlogging on YouTube, I thought I would have a few glasses of Rioja at The Bollo (open for the first time this year on Christmas Day for a few hours) and see what happened….
I see that Geeklawyer, podcasting with me but two [...]

I tried my best to deliver your Christmas presents….

I was alone at The Bollo with a lot of other alone people…. We shared wine… the wind made it extremely difficult to smoke outside…and… I just could not watch My Fair Lady and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang…
And then…. the AngelGabriel.com delivered unto me… an email from Ed of Blawg Review.

Subject: [...]

Podcast 35: Geeklawyer…

Today I am talking to Geeklawyer, IP lawyer, blogger, mead drinker and biker. No doubt, he will be able to add to the list. He has been able to put his skills as an advocate to good use on his blawg; describing, fellow blogger Dan Hull of What About Clients? as a “…a depraved [...]

Saturday Review: Christmas Edition 2007 Part II…

As we edge ever closer to the festival of mammon and excess, Saturday 22nd was the Winter Solstice - the shortest day - I have had a ‘Damascus’ moment. I am a news junkie… I am addicted to blogging. I even managed to exceed John Bolch’s Family Lore score of 62% on an [...]

Saturday Review: Christmas 2007 Edition Part I…

A resourceful German restauranteur has come up with ‘Smoking point’ to enable smokers to remain inside at restaurants and pubs while enjoying a smoke. He has made several holes in the wall of his restaurant.
So… Christmas has arrived. Fortunately, The Bollo has decided to open for three hours on Christmas Day. This [...]

A personal statement…

Britain will be closed for the next two and a half weeks because of Christmas. I have therefore decided, with some reluctance, to spend more time with my blawg and take a break from the onerous responsibility of writing about matters legal. Holed up in my Staterooms (I have a mince pie in [...]

Christmas office parties…

Tonight I walked into my usual watering hole for a quick glass of wine. It was full of unpleasantly pissed office party goers, many of whom were shouting shit at each other. Profanity and grunts and loud lewd male bonding laughter. I stood at the bar to order a drink. [...]

The beautiful game…

I must make it clear that I know nothing about football.  The new England manager/coach does know a lot about football - but he doesn’t spika da English too good.  He says he will learn it in a month.
Kelvin Mackenzie, writing in The Sun, reports: ” Capello says he will have mastered English in [...]

Beggaring belief… again…

David Cameron, after laying into Labour on “Donorsgate” for not knowing what is going on in their back yard, now has the embarrassment of not knowing what is going on in his back yard; giving Labour an opportunity to do a bit of “It beggars belief” in return.
The Sun reports: “DAVID Cameron was plunged [...]

I just can’t get excited….

I just cannot seem to find the enthusiasm to get excited about the election of Nick Clegg as Lib-Dem leader. So I won’t.

The wonder of Facebook…

I woke this morning to an email informing me that I had a message on my Facebook. I have been invited “qua Charon” to attend a law school law student dinner and network with the students. Excellent. I am looking forward to it.
The President of The Law Society (at the university) [...]

Gordon Brown lost…

In a statement to the House tonight, Jack Straw told MPs that the government has now lost Gordon Brown. The courier company contracted to deliver Brown to Portugal to sign the EU Treaty, after delivering him late, has admitted they have absolutely no idea where he is. Police are calling off their search [...]

The Chav Nativity…

A friend sent me this the other day… I posted it and then took it down, intending to put it in my Saturday review…. but I could not do a Saturday review… so here it is. Catherine Tate, I am told. You may not have seen it….
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THE CHAV NATIVITY:
There’s this bird called Mary, [...]

Sunday Review: 16 December

I was not able to do a Saturday review…
Lord Falconer, Head of Legal reports, is against the extension of detention to 42 days. The Attorney General of the web is puzzled about this death bed conversion and speculates on whether Falconer has sorted out his pension ‘issues’.
Geeklawyer gets mauled by a Leopard - [...]

Belle de Jure and L2B return to blawging

Belle de Jure and L2B return to blawging - in a new guise: Reductio ad absurdum.
Good to see you both blogging again.