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Category Archives: memories
Naturalised Londoner: That Outdoor Life, Part One
As an Articled clerk, trainee solicitor as it is now known, back in 1979, one of my many jobs was to act as a sort of underpaid postman. To hire a motorcycle dispatch rider cost real money, back then. What … Continue reading
Posted in experiences, humour, London, memories, miscellany, thought
Tagged articled clerk, delivery boy, humour, London
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Naturalised Londoner: Part Whatever – Legal Obscurities
I’m pretty sure that, in the same way we all bleed and think education is wasted on children, the legal systems of all nations are things of devilish contrafabulations. They are developed to confuse and obfuscate. The English (and Welsh) … Continue reading
Posted in humour, law, London, memories, miscellany
Tagged articled clerk, conveyancing, easements, humour, London, memories
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Channelling Burns, Dickens and Winnie The Pooh #thoughts
Sometimes ideas come at one for a variety of directions at the same time, coalescing in something I can’t really explain. And that’s good. It started with this post of Mary Smith’s, about being in Robbie Burns house, in the … Continue reading
Posted in memories, miscellany, thought piece
Tagged Christchurch, Dickens, Earthquake, empty chair, Robert Burns, Winnie the Pooh
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Naturalised Londoner – Living On Air
The Law Society which in 1979 regulated the life of the Solicitors profession had just about begun to consider the lot of the Articled Clerk. Some people considered the Law Society to be one of the closed shops of professional … Continue reading
Naturalised Londoner: Open Air
As an articled clerk in 1979, in a small firm of solicitors comprising three partners, two independent consulatants whose ages were measured in eons rather than years and two other associate solicitors, I was the lowest form of legal pond … Continue reading
Posted in humour, London, memories, miscellany
Tagged 1970s, articled clerks, bear garden, humour, legal training, London, masters, memories, Royal Courts of Justice
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Naturalised Londoner: part 3 – that first job
I’m spinning some plates just now. As well as pulling together all the short fiction I wrote during 2017 for a new anthology, Life In A Conversation, and reworking the very first book I wrote, I’m getting close to finalising … Continue reading
Posted in humour, memories, miscellany, work
Tagged articled clerk, humour, law firm, memories, work
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Wheels Within Wheels – the Middle Years – Part 3
So you’ve read parts 1 and 2, here and here. Can my university cycling career get any worse? After all I’ve decapitated a commuter, reducing the chances of our reaching a replacement birthrate by one and I’ve skittled a pensioner … Continue reading
Posted in bicycling, Bristol, humour, memories, miscellany
Tagged Bristol, cycling, falls, ice
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