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18 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 18 July 2010 in Diary |

Having a lifting belt caused me to wonder the other day where the expression ‘belt up’ came from. As we know one of its meaning is ’shut up’. I turned to my Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, but that was no help. The expression has been in use much longer than the introduction of seatbelts, so […]

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17 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 17 July 2010 in Diary |

A couple of days ago I heard from Patrick Joyce, the amazing young man with MND, who has adopted the title of The Incurable Optimist, which I must say he truly deserves. My readers may recall me shelter mentioning that this incredible young man earlier in the blog and how he is determined to paint […]

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16 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 16 July 2010 in Diary |

The cricket season started with a vengeance on Tuesday, at Lord’s, with the first test match of the year.  However, not as one would expect with England playing somebody, but Pakistan playing Australia as  Pakistan is considered to be too dangerous for visiting teams In fact, I spent the first four days of this test […]

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12 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 12 July 2010 in Diary |

Today I received a savage blow. Yet another milestone in my life is disappearing. After some correspondence with the University in Beijing we have decided that it will not be physically possible for me to go and deliver the lectures, or assist in giving the lectures, this year. Basically, the reason is that the campus […]

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11 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 11 July 2010 in Diary |

A quiet day after yesterday’s excitement. A kind neighbour, Edward Oliver, who has generously helped me over the past two years complete my Tax Return – as I can no longer write –  came round this morning with this year’s submission. It will be interesting to see if there is any comeback from the Inland […]

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10 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 10 July 2010 in Diary |

A long, lingering, lazy lunch in the garden. Our guests were Julian (Critchlow) — my literary executor, and very good friend, since we were students together at Kings College London, in the late 80s, reading for our Masters degree in Arbitration Law -and his partner Lucy. As I have come to expect from this pair […]

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8 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 8 July 2010 in Diary |

My second full day in the office since I broke my leg. Good old Duncan (Rix) had kindly been in over the weekend and reorganised all my office equipment so that I can access it from one sitting position. I access the place through the new ramp using my gutter frame and then onto the […]

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6 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 6 July 2010 in Diary |

I decided to brave the rigours of  a train journey to London today — the first since I broke my leg falling off the train at Bishop Stortford in early May. The occasion was the Arbitration Club lunch, of the Law Court Branch, held at the offices of City lawyers, Speechley Bircham, just off Fetter […]

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5 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 5 July 2010 in Diary |

It was one of those Irish Tuesdays today being Monday, when the geriatric golf day was moved by a day to make way for a private function tomorrow. As my good friend Peter Murphy kindly drove me, with a name like that, I hope he will forgive the politically incorrect reference to the Irish. This […]

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4 July 2010

Posted by DMC on 4 July 2010 in Diary |

I received details today, by e-mail, of the outcome of The Great London Swim Event. Congratulations to all three boys who finished in very creditable times, particularly young Tom, who covered the distance in 33 minutes  16 seconds but only just over a minute or so faster than Peter. Even more impressive was that Duncan […]

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