Bah humbug

[liadnan]

I realised today that Christmas lurches ever closer - Chambers' Christmas Dinner this week and not a single card bought, let alone sent. As for presents, well, I did buy some but, um, now I want them.

My head still hurts from Sunday's thumping, and, to be honest, I'm still reluctant to walk that way home. Which is terribly inconvenient, as Primrose Hill is somewhat locked off -there aren't that many different ways in. I had a surge of quite seriously thinking about moving out of London, preferably to the middle of nowhere, but it seems to have died down, for the present. Which is a good thing, as it's entirely impractical.

Half-day trial tomorrow. Anyone care to guess when I received the papers. Mind you, since a crucial order in the case took two months to travel from the judge to my instructing solicitors it's par for the course really.

In other news, "Is there room on your populist ill-conceived bandwagon for two, Michael," Blair asks.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_kiki_/]

I want the presents I've bought as well. That's why everyone will get absolute crap this year--to keep it from my greedy hands.

[liadnan]

A novel tactic but one I may have to adopt.

presents?

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

If you like them, why don't you keep them? Do you have time to get other presents?

What about moving to a different London area? Isn't anywhere (relatively) safe in that city?

p.s.

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

Don't listen to me; I know nothing of presents (or cards, for that matter).

Re: presents?

[liadnan]

Can't afford it.

If Primrose Hill ain't safe (and to be honest, most of the time it is) nowhere in London is.

Re: presents?

[nikandra.livejournal.com]

well, I thought as much, but didn't think it polite to ask about that. Oh well, giving presents is a Christmas thing (and a social obligation that you can't avoid). Think of how happy you'll make them by giving them these (and of when you can afford to buy them for yourself).

I see. Well, maybe nothing will happen again. *knocks on wood* I hope you start feeling better soon.

[greyarea.livejournal.com]

"Sunday's thumping"?

*double checks*

Ah, fucking hell. Sorry to read that Marcus - no idea how I missed it in the first place TBH. I could try and console you with arguments about how lightning is highly unlikely to strike in the same place twice - esp in Primrose Hill - etc etc, but I know as well as you do (ie from experience) that that doesn't actually assuage the worry in any way.

Sympathies your way, anyway. It's shitty and unfair that incidents like that happen at all - on the flip side they do happen very rarely. But obviously I'm very sorry to hear it happened at all.

[knell.livejournal.com]

Populist and ill-conceived indeed. I was always under the impression that the criminal justice system existed to determine whether or not people had done criminal things, and if they did what should be done with them within the legal frameworks that define the system's actions. I may be a heartless and unsympathetic bastard (I try my best to be, at least), but it's been worrying me quite a lot these last few years that the feelings of victims of crime suddenly seem to be sacrosanct. Every time a court fails to hand down the sentence of blood vengeance which they tearfully demand at press conferences it's the judicial system which gets the stick for not having its actions dictated by emotionally overwrought people who aren't really in a very good position to decide what should be done with the people who have wronged them...

I'll probably get a Daily Mail hitsquad sent round for saying that I thought Tony Martin deserved everything he received after lying in wait with a shotgun and shooting some kid in the back. Still, vigilantism and mob rule are cost-effective and inexpensive alternatives to properly-funded policing and an independent judicial system.

[frankie-ecap.livejournal.com]

What you said.