The midlife ramblings of a born again parent. Triangular Bees ? Remember the Toblerone advert ? I sometimes use Toblertone as a nickname. Nuff said really. I don't actually like Toblerone either. How post-modernly ironic is that ?
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 !
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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.
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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
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As usual, I plan to post again soon, but who knows...
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I am a Barrister and Accredited Mediator by profession a photographer and actor by inclination, a chef by necessity and a first class, ocean-going, fur-lined, copper-bottomed, lifetime warranted, chump of the first water by general acclamation.
