Category Archives: Personal

Things that make me proud

June 21, 2009 – 10:48 am

Jim Belshaw wrote a post listing 5 things that make him proud, and has tagged SL and I to do the same. I’m not going to write a list, mainly because I’m terrible at lists. I struggle with memes.
The main thing in life that makes me proud is family: my children, my husband, my sister, [...]

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Eight Random Things About Me Meme

May 22, 2009 – 10:04 pm

Saint has tagged me for one of these memes.

Thinking about this meme has led me to realise that I’m not very random, although my mind does go all over the place all the time. But my mind is always drawing links between disparate topics, albeit sometimes of a bizarre nature. Well, perhaps everyone else thinks [...]

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WTF - career counselling for toddlers?

April 8, 2009 – 12:30 pm

The other day, I was talking with a kinder Dad who is a fellow lawyer. My daughter piped up, “Mummy is a Big Lawyer and I will be a Little Lawyer when I grow up.” The Dad and I exchanged looks, as I ruefully grimaced. “I’d really rather she didn’t become a lawyer,” I confessed. [...]

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Have fishtank, will travel…

January 29, 2009 – 7:19 am

Well, there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that my personal blog Sunday Funnies continues from strength to strength, the bad news is that I now have independent posting privileges on Skepticlawyer and am not afraid to use them [insert demonic chuckle here].
As a former British tech journo now living in [...]

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Parenthood

December 30, 2008 – 7:32 am

‘Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.‘ Bill Cosby

Both times after I have given birth, I have been simply overwhelmed by the love I feel for my babies. It’s a deep-seated, primal kind of love, accompanied by a fierce desire to protect. Sometimes we forget [...]

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A meme (with homage to Pavlov’s Cat)

December 21, 2008 – 5:25 am

I’ve never done one of these, but right now am feeling relaxed and comfortable enough to make the attempt: I’m tutoring jurisprudence and constitutional law (UK version — parliament always wins) next term (which also means cash on top of the scholarship — always handy), the thesis is going well, and I’ve bitten the career [...]

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‘Some rooms are like cages’

November 29, 2008 – 3:20 pm

Sonny sits by his window and thinks to himself
How it’s strange that some rooms are like cages.
Sonny’s yearbook from high school
Is down from the shelf -
And he idly thumbs through the pages.
Some have died.
Some have fled from themselves.
Or struggled from here to get there.
- Paul Simon, The Obvious Child
In my last year of high school, [...]

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Old friends

October 19, 2008 – 8:02 pm

I caught up with a friend of mine from my UK high school today. We calculated that we hadn’t seen each other for almost 10 years. But it seemed like yesterday that we’d last seen each other, and there were no uncomfortable pauses in conversation (unless you count the moment when my daughter ran in [...]

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Feeling Fat and Frustrated…

October 11, 2008 – 9:35 am

It’s a perk of blogging that I get a platform to whinge. I’ve suddenly reached That Point in my pregnancy. That point of Feeling Fat and Frustrated. You swim along on a tide of hormones, feeling muzzy and happy, but then suddenly you reach the end of your tether.
I’m so enormous at the moment that [...]

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Maternity leave

September 30, 2008 – 9:50 pm

The law firm for which I worked when I had my daughter did not have paid maternity leave unless you were a partner. As far as I know, only one woman ever met that hurdle. It is a really short-sighted position to take when you are a profitable business with a pretty good turnover. I [...]

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