Stuff and Things

So.. I briefly thought that if someone was fool enough not only to log in to, um, adult on-line dating services at a public access terminal, but also to omit to log out properly, they deserved everything that came to them. But, contrary to all appearances, I am a kind man, so I simply logged them out and erased all their details from my mind...

(I used to think I was fairly soft-hearted as lawyers go. But I was once in some last-minute negotiation in the robing room in some High Court DR, with lots of other barristers around. One of them, who I knew from my first six months as a pupil, said to me afterwards "Christ, you're scary." Which I took as a compliment.)

Went to Bath for the nuptials of Jen and Gideon this weekend, and many people were met and a fab time had by all. I know this to be true, for I danced.

I rarely dance, which is a mercy to all concerned.

Slightly concerned that everyone I know appears to be growing up, and I'm still waiting for Stuff to Happen, but there it is. Huge congrats to them both, anyway.

The next morning, having dealt with the acid some inconsiderate git had somehow poured into my skull, I wandered off and round the Baths. Yes, I am my parents' child (and anyway it was raining...) in truth I managed to fit the Abbey and a look at the Royal Crescent as well. It's been a long time since I was in Bath, probably not since my schooldays. But with my parents, both of them school teachers, we spent much of every summer holiday wandering round every minor, as well as major, site of interest in the country, not to mention beyond. And I'm one of the few Londoners I know who regularly plays London tourist round places like the Tower. People seem to fail to get around to visiting the places on their doorsteps.

Finished Oryx and Crake on the train. Good, but flawed, was my view, though I wait for Martin's review with interest. Superb prose as ever but a little more plot development wouldn't have gone amiss, in about the last third of the novel (though I approve of the way it ends).