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The Cornish Exile: August 2008
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The day the blogging died. After that though I fear that this blog will go into a deep sleep for the foreseeable future. I'm about to move up to London to start my new job, and I have to move into my new house and settle into a completely different way of life, so things will be busy for a while and I doubt I'll find the time to blog. But, as they say, never say never. So, until whenever, thanks for reading :). It would be nice to think so. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mooting all over the World. Today is...
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The Cornish Exile: Living up to London
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Living up to London. Despite being the sort of person who loves to plan everything out, even if I'd spent a year do so, I don't think I'd have predicted even half of what these past-four months have brought. What will the New Year and beyond bring? So, what are they? In no particular order: To cycle into work and back each day; to buy a, and learn to play the ukulele; to start playing badminton again; to take up karting properly once the new season begins in March; and (can I have this one? After last we...
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The Cornish Exile: March 2011
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Who'd have thought that a post entitled "Logistics" would bring me out of my blogging slumber? Probably anyone who knows me. How the postal system helped to shape aspects of the modern law of contract. Douglas Adams' holistic detective, Dirk Gently. Makes use of the "fundamental inconnectedness of things" to solve crime. From China to London via Koera, Kazakhstan, Poland and Germany, he'd have been impressed by UPS. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Mooting all over the World. Dank u, Sinterklaasje! Today is a...
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The Cornish Exile: Appreciating Old Town Alexandria
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Appreciating Old Town Alexandria. After last weekend's Metro troubles, my extended visit to Mount Vernon meant my plans to visit Old Town Alexandria on the way back died a death. However, yesterday they were resurrected when, despite yet more Metro holdups, I finally made it. Sour, which I suppose is necessary to contrast with the spices of the main dishes, but unfortunately not really to my taste. Dave in VA said. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mooting all over the World. Dank u, Sinterklaasje!
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The Cornish Exile: April 2008
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This is not the term to be heading backwards and forwards between London and Cambridge, but nonetheless, that's what I seem to be finding myself doing and I spent the weekend just gone in our illustrious capital city. And a busy weekend it was too. Cue the chance to get all nostalgic over stroopwafeln and olliebollen, and to have a photo taken wearing 'Dutch' hats. All very good fun, and I even got to speak some Dutch, but alas, despite my supreme effort of enunciation, the addressees of my Dutch wor...
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The Cornish Exile: May 2008
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This time in seven days I'll (presumably) be heading to bed on the night before my first-final exam. Over the following nine days I'll sit a total of six exams ranging from topics as diverse as the Historical Foundations of the British Constitution and the Conflict of Laws, to Equity and Jurisprudence. Exam term is always an odd term. The current atmosphere at University can be summed up by more apt clichés than I'd usually care for, but "the calm before the storm". We'll just have to wait and see. Some ...
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The Cornish Exile: Dank u, Sinterklaasje!
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Dank u, Sinterklaasje! Thankfully I have been good this year, and hence, this evening after being forced to sing traditional Dutch songs, I, along with about 30 others, was visited by Sinterklaas himself:. Un)fortunately, I, unlike Richard, did not get to sit on his knee and have my yearly exploits recounted. Although I did later learn that had I been so lucky stories of my alter ego 'Bucks', from one of my vacation schemes, would have been told. So, my thanks to Sabs for that one! I've now eaten far.
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The Cornish Exile: December 2008
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Living up to London. Despite being the sort of person who loves to plan everything out, even if I'd spent a year do so, I don't think I'd have predicted even half of what these past-four months have brought. What will the New Year and beyond bring? So, what are they? In no particular order: To cycle into work and back each day; to buy a, and learn to play the ukulele; to start playing badminton again; to take up karting properly once the new season begins in March; and (can I have this one? After last we...
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The Cornish Exile: July 2008
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A Tale of Two Committees. One of the benefits to working in an office where there are far too many interns for the work available is that we get to go a relatively high number of events on the Hill outside of the office, such as hearings, briefings and receptions. All over in two hours, everyone present (both members and audience) stayed until the end, and the process just seemed to work as it's meant too. A Very British Reception. Being outsiders to the event it was a little difficult to work up the ent...
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The Cornish Exile: "All across the nation, such a strange vibration"
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All across the nation, such a strange vibration". I've shamelessly stolen the title from the song 'San Francisco' by Scott McKenzie, but I think it sums up this whole post perfectly, so you can skip reading the rest and just look at the photos. After the mooting competition had finished I boarded Amtrak's Capitol Limited train from Washington DC up to Chicago to catch the California Zephyr from there onto San Francisco. Families travelling together and people just commuting between 'local' stops. Some pl...
