Harlesden
Today I had hearings at 10.00 and 14.00 at Willesden County Court. I was done with the first by 11.00 which left me to spend mid-day in the not-terribly-inspiring North-West London suburb of Harlesden.
I went to a (greasy spoon/traditional English) cafe and had peppermint tea and phoned my solicitor only to be cut off mid-call by my battery dying. Wandered down the road and found a phone shop where they kindly took it from me to charge while I had lunch -- baked potato with beans and veg! The good people of Harlesden ate and chatted around me and the radio offered easy listening characterised by, amongst others, "Eternal Flame," "Maneater," "Simply The Best" and "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." Between the commute in, my extended lunch, and travelling back to chambers, I have read almost half of Wangari Maathai's memoir Unbowed and am wondering why I found it so difficult to get into last year!
Back at chambers, my email connection seems to have given up the ghost in between my two attendance notes, so I will leave the second, and my billing, to tomorrow. I have no cases listed for tomorrow (or indeed the rest of the week) as yet. If that remains so, I may be going to Cambridge in the afternoon for a drink with a possible new friend. I'm getting a bit worried about the quietness of my diary but I will refrain from panicking for at least a few weeks. At the last part of my induction last Friday the executive clerk asked me if I wanted to be in the Immigration Team and I said yes, very much, if they didn't mind! Hopefully they won't, and I will start to pick up some immigration work as well.
Choir tonight. I really must stop agreeing to take part in two concerts at once, and all the associated rehearsals -- I do enjoy them, but it eats up so much time!
I went to a (greasy spoon/traditional English) cafe and had peppermint tea and phoned my solicitor only to be cut off mid-call by my battery dying. Wandered down the road and found a phone shop where they kindly took it from me to charge while I had lunch -- baked potato with beans and veg! The good people of Harlesden ate and chatted around me and the radio offered easy listening characterised by, amongst others, "Eternal Flame," "Maneater," "Simply The Best" and "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." Between the commute in, my extended lunch, and travelling back to chambers, I have read almost half of Wangari Maathai's memoir Unbowed and am wondering why I found it so difficult to get into last year!
Back at chambers, my email connection seems to have given up the ghost in between my two attendance notes, so I will leave the second, and my billing, to tomorrow. I have no cases listed for tomorrow (or indeed the rest of the week) as yet. If that remains so, I may be going to Cambridge in the afternoon for a drink with a possible new friend. I'm getting a bit worried about the quietness of my diary but I will refrain from panicking for at least a few weeks. At the last part of my induction last Friday the executive clerk asked me if I wanted to be in the Immigration Team and I said yes, very much, if they didn't mind! Hopefully they won't, and I will start to pick up some immigration work as well.
Choir tonight. I really must stop agreeing to take part in two concerts at once, and all the associated rehearsals -- I do enjoy them, but it eats up so much time!