Child’s primary school teacher approaches in street and plaster on my most winning smile. Shoots me a suspicious glance. Not teacher. Passed by before I had a chance to say I mistook her. Must wear glasses when out and about.

Going to playground
4yo: Let’s wock and woll!

A clear win for the lovers and not the fighters

If you’re in the Farringdon or Clerkenwell areas, or just London generally, this is the place for a fry up.

Questioning in sex cases is in the news due to Ellie Wilson, who has waived her right to anonymity about her case. Immediate transcription in criminal cases must be a priority for the benefit of all parties, and justice, as I wrote here a while back: counselofperfection.blogspot.com/2018/10/word-f…

Would you rather know everyone that ever fancied you or everyone that ever hated you?

Ran into new mother neighbour in a big coat pushing a pram. Leaned down to beam at baby and saw that there was a doll in the pram. Was about to ask if everything was alright, at last second spotted baby in a sling under the coat. Could have been very awkward.

ARE YOU A CRIM BARRISTER, TRAINEE OR JUDGE. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN HOW JURIES +LEGAL PROFESSIONALS PERCEIVE JURIES?
An excellent's friend's colleagues at the Uni of Bath are conducting this research which needs [PAID] barristers to cross examine witnesses in May.

Can I get a r/t

So if the Americans are getting the solar eclipse now does that mean we’ll be getting it in 3 months’ time?

This is Italian model Alessandro di Marco. No, he's not advertising Armani aftershave, he was actually born 186 years ago in 1838. I've lightly enhanced & sharpened this 1867 portrait by Julia Cameron, the same year Charles Dickens gave his first public reading in the United…

Keble 2024

Scots Guards and the Republican Guard armed outside Buckingham Palace. Remind me who the current Jacobite Pretender is?

'Twilight.' (1904) Of all the artists linked to the Nabis, Félix Vallotton was one of the most peripheral, keeping a distance that isolated him to some degree from the other artists in the group yet still occasionally exhibiting with them.

His connection to the group was…

You’re not my therapist

Benjamin Haughton was a landscape painter who studied under the Royal Academician Sir Hubert von Herkomer and painted around Ottery St. Mary in Devon, not far from his birthplace in Dawlish. He had a remarkable facility for painting woodland. Here, he's pictured a segment of a…

Andrew Bousfield appeared for the Crown in the widely reported POCA proceedings against Stephen Bear for “revenge porn” offences in relation to Georgia Harrison.

Unusually, Ms Harrison had obtained over £200,000 damages in the civil courts, however she could not afford to…

God chose Noah because he needed an arky type.

I genuinely had to reread this because I read it like an English person who is fed up of seeing him.

A unheralded benefit of Google is that if you run into a an up-and-coming actor you can swiftly look them up, get their name spot on and, even better, their back catalogue. Then they can go on their way feeling like Tom Cruise. Obviously don't do this with Tom Cruise.

It’s not simply that I don’t accept this - it’s a blatant falsehood.

I’ve had more cases delayed *of my own* for prisoners not being brought to court than the government claim have occurred nationwide.

Somebody is fiddling these figures.