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In June the red rose blooms, that's not the flower for me

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Meet my new assistant. When he turned up he said something about being able to help me with contracts (my Japanese isn't brilliant, as you know) so I put him straight to work.

It's been a rather tiring week, with too many trips into deep Devon - a lovely county, but not when most of what's on view is the M5. Yesterday it was a 6.30am sunshiny start to Barnstaple, where I was taking part in a programme review, but never saw the sea. On Monday it was to Exeter for medical stuff, plus lunch with the great-granddaughter of Captain John Lewis (master of the St Cuthbert), who had contacted me after reading my grandfather's account of the disaster in this blog. I wonder what the stern Captain and his Fourth Officer would have thought if they could have seen us - she with a selection of Iceland lollies, I with my trusty cheese and watercress sandwich - picnicking on the dry slopes of the old castle moat? Ah, mutabilitie!

What else happened this week? Ah yes, a very interesting seminar paper on Wednesday by a lawyer colleague on the application of international law to child soldiers - including, of course, those who serve in the British army.
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[personal profile] colorwheel 2014-06-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
don't let him help you! don't make any wishes for him to grant! i am scared of your new assistant!
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[personal profile] steepholm 2014-06-14 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
But he's so cute! And his curiously unchanging smile is so sincere!
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[personal profile] colorwheel 2014-06-14 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
then i will have to do it too, to save you, and we will all be doomed!

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Do the British Army still have soldiers under 18? I know they used to, but I thought they had stopped doing so some years ago.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
They still recruit from 16, but in theory they only deploy from 18. However, it does occasionally happen, and she showed us pictures of 16-year-old children on patrol in Iraq.

[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't know that - thanks.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what we were told, anyway - I haven't tried to verify it independently.

[identity profile] gillpolack.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I looked at the toy and thought "Secretly scary."

[identity profile] rushthatspeaks.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Looks like a shady character to me.

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
He's staring at me now as if butter wouldn't melt...

... and still staring...

[identity profile] steepholm.livejournal.com 2014-06-14 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Never trust a creature with ears growing out of its ears.
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