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Tag Archives: London
One London Garden: A Year Of Drought And Delight 2018 #flowers #gardens #london
So this is shamelessly self-indulgent, but if you want to experience a year in a London garden, if you want to debunk the myth about England’s constantly grey and drizzly skies, if you want to see Dog during a year of … Continue reading
Naturalised Londoner – The Outdoor Life, Part Two
In part one I set the scene, of my joys as a delivery boy, here. The nadir so far as this role was concerned came in the Spring of 1980. The senior partner had a client who worked in the … Continue reading
Posted in humour, law, London, miscellany
Tagged articled clerk, deliveries, humour, London, memoires
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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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Objects Of Curiosity
Maybe it’s just me but as you wander around a city like London which has a history stretching further than a Galilean fish supper, you are constantly brought up short by things like the above. For those who can’t read … Continue reading
Posted in history, London, miscellany
Tagged drinking fountains, history, London, sewers
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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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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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