Innocent Childhood Passtimes: Garbage Hooking

(Enter Molly aged 5, holding a wire coat hanger which has been straightened out to make a Christmas wreath, but retaining its hook. Dangling from it is a sausage packet from the recycling)
Molly: Daddy, do you want to play hooking the garbage ?
Daddy: If I am completely honest, Molly, not really.
Molly: Oh, but I really love playing with garbage.
Daddy: Perhaps we could move to India, there are places there were children spend all day on garbage heaps hooking out bits of garbage.
Molly: Could we really do that ?
Daddy: If I don’t get some more money in, we may have to.
Molly: Oh goody. But, Daddy, would we have to eat curry every day ?
Daddy: Yes Molly, every cloud has a silver lining.

Please help to ensure that this man receives the justice he deserves.

Now this is serious. Please give this your attention and share it as widely as you are able. Please watch the whole video although it is upsetting and may make you angry and/or upset. It was uploaded to YouTube by his daughter who was the victim of what in any civilised country would be regarded as an awful, brutal and abusive crime against a young person that should not go unpunsihed whenever it was committed.



According to an article published on the Guardian online this morning, Judge William Adams who still sits as a judge is protected from prosecution for this appalling violence by a statute of limitations.

But he cannot be protected from the power of the internet, of which he ironically disapproves in the video. Hopefully, he can be forced to resign or be removed from office. This is unaaceptable behaviour from anyone least of all anyone who sits in judgment on other human beings.

I hope you will agree and will play your part in ensuring that he is brought to account for this.

Pierre Garroudi Fashion Flash Mob Photoshoot 8 June 2011

I cannot begin to tell you how much fun my second proper fashion shoot was...


Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

50th Birthday looming

I am about to become 50 years old.

I would quite like to do something special to mark my half century.

But I am beyond skint at the moment.

Answers on a postcard please...

Catwalk Fashion Shoot

Some pictures from my first catwalk fashion shoot. These were taken at the Grosvenor House Hotel Park Lane, London on 30 September 2010. Women's clothes by Pussy Willow, Men's clothes by Mark Lord, Hats/Millinery by Emily London. Thanks to all for giving me the opportunity to try my hand at fashion photography.

Well Done Charlotte !

I am so very proud of my daughter Charlotte (far left in the blue hat) who is studying to become a Chef. She has just finished the first year of a Culinary Arts Management Degree at University College Birmingham and yesterday landed herself a job as a Commis Chef at the highly prestigious Claridges for her placement year. She has worked hard for this and deserves success.

Move over Delia Smith, Nigella Lawson and Angela Hartnett, Charlotte Sendall is coming through...

T Shirt from Zazzle.com

I could not resist the urge to create this T-shirt to commemorate Robert Green's sterling efforts in goal against USA in England's World Cup 2010 opener. Please feel free to buy one !

Green-fingered T Shirt from Zazzle.com

So...

Quite a bit has happened since I last posted on here. Without any doubt at all, the most important was becoming a grandfather on 14 March 2010. Oliver George Sendall is doing very nicely. The pictures below were taken just two hours after Oliver was born.

Yes, this is the point where you exclaim all the nonsense about me looking far too young and all of my ex-girlfriends squirm at the thought that they have slept with someone who is a grandfather ! Molly is now Aunty Molly, aged 4 and if Helen and I were to have another baby, he/she would be an uncle/aunt from birth and younger than nephew Oliver. Modern families, eh ?

On the professional front, business has been uncharacteristically slow for the first half of the year. There is still advice and drafting work to be done, but the amount of court work is appallingly small. I came into this job to be a specialist advocate not to attend case management discussions in cases that settle. I am, however, enjoying being a mediator and apart from the commercial and workplace mediations, I am now enjoying being a pro bono community mediator, having completed my recent training with Mediation Buckinghamshire.

Today is the first night of Chiltern Shakespeare's production of Twelfth Night. Although it is hard to be objective about these things, it is my eleventh year of appearing in their shows and I am fairly confident that this is going to be the best yet. I am playing Sir Toby Belch and Helen is playing Olivia. Ticket sales are looking a bit disappointing, possibly (in part), because of the recession, but mostly because of the World Cup. The Saturday night shows normally sell out completely, but this year, our smallest audience of the whole two week run is likely to be this Saturday when the show clashes with England's opening game of the World Cup against USA. At the moment, it looks as if the audience will be more like 250 than 750. So, if you know anyone who would like something different and highly entertaining to do that night, tell them to come to see our show ! If you click on the link above, it will take you to the website where you can book online.

I have been doing a fair bit of photography lately too. You can catch up with some of the pictures on Flickr.com, but here is one of recent favourites, which I have titled Sky Bridge. It was taken on the Millennium Bridge in London, facing St Paul's

As usual, I plan to post again soon, but who knows...