OK, how many did you get? Come on be honest …
Geeklawyer reaped a poor harvest this year: heavens, he can normally count on a couple of dozen from female Bar students intent on currying favour for a pupillage - they will usually contain a revealing lingeried photo, name, address, mobile phone number and email addresses.
Which does - of course - make sense. Were they to abide by tradition and send an anonymous card then there would be no scope for career advantage. Geeklawyer has thrown these cards away this year; it would be thoroughly dishonourable to take advantage of the desperate aspirations of these comely intelligent women with their sharp minds, ample cleavages, firm taut … shit, my pupilette emptied the bin, scheming tart is trying to protect her own position.
As for genuine cards, there was a miserable 50p Oxfam card bearing a Norfolk stamp: still 50p in Norfolk is probably considered pretty lavish.
Did Geeklawyer send any? Why yes! to a select few lady readers, but as a gentleman and a barrister he couldn’t possibly be so indiscreet as to name names. Did he send one to Ruthie? well …
Geeklawyer - are you telling me that the one card I received this year was NOT from you?
I think my secretary has finally finished opening the pile that arrived at the office this morning. I asked her to sort them into descending order by bank balance of sender. Since its not always obvious my guidance was as follows: large card, international postmark, gold lettering, written with fountain pen - top of pile. Flimsy card, local postmark, address written in crayon - bottom of the pile. Any cards with senders underwear attached: call police.
Ruthie… don’t call Plod…. it was a joke. Was it the leopard skin one?
If so, I got one of those cards as well… bit baffled at first… but will be quite useful when I next go to Ibiza with The Hoff.