A confession is required: Geeklawyer has been so busy this year he hasn’t had time to do anything for the conference. Given also the disappointing drop off of UK lawyers blogging there is also the question of attendance which it must be feared would be sparse.
The suggestion has been made and accepted, therefore, that a less formal perhaps smaller do should be organised in London pub. There we can eschew the pretense of a professional grown up conference (that’ll be next year honest) and just drink beer and gossip.
Central London. Late August?
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Wasn’t it in London last year? You can’t have a conference/piss-up at the same venue.
I suggest Birmingham.
But that’s up North?!
If you cast your puffy and short-sighted eyes in the direction of the map, you will see that it is in the Midlands. Ideally placed, therefore, for a meet-up!
But I’m not too fussed. I’m a Southern fairy myself, after all.
My dear Martin, clearly you didn’t get a GCSE in geography. The Midlands extend from Potters Bar to Luton, as any fule kno.
I’m up in London In August…. a MASSIVE Pub Bender, er , sorry, serious and leanred discussion as to the future and nature of blogging, sounds like great good fun!
London Late August is good - but what about a pre-conference symposium to plan the late August piss-up sometime in June…?
As it happens… there are quite a few new bloggers…. and, as far as I know, none of them seem to be in Birmingham. I could be wrong.
Late August is good for me at the moment. Also interested in a planning piss-up in June…
Oh and London please.
What term do you use for a gathering of bloggers? A gaggle? An orgy!? A posse? A hangover?
A ‘case’ of law bloggers…. but I am drinking a glass of rioja?
GL may suggest a ‘jihad’ of law bloggers?
For my part…. what about a ‘bucket of blawgers’?… or perhaps, something more classical, prosaic… a ‘halcyon’…. an ‘ineluctability of blawgers’?… or even…. a ’synod’?… perhaps even something masonic… ‘a Tubalcain of blawgers’….
And then we could be mysterious and say “All square, squire’ and mutter about temple’s not being finished…. etc etc….
F**k… I’ve overused that apostrophe gag again this week…. mea culpa
It should, of course, opus dei, have been Temples…
I shall drink three Hail Mary’s in penance… and then nip down to the lodge.Bound to bump into a Worshipful Master (WM).
I can do not better, this night, but quote this gem: ” How many times have you heard the WM open a Lodge for the “purposes of Freemasonry in the second degree”, only to hear a little gasp from the IPM, and correct himself with “oh sorry, for the instruction and improvement of Craftsmen”. In that moment he’s been made to look slightly incompetent. The dignity of his office has taken a slight dent.
I am sure, when we meet, in the place where we agree to convene, bringing with us the tools of our craft and other regalia - that we shall meet as members of a craft and then get pissed….. possibly. I cannot, do not, shall not, and will not, speak for other brothers on these most secret matters.
Geeklawyer… Is it Friday already? It cannot be? tell me that it is not so.
I’m off to find Tom Cruise to see if he will let me become a scientologist… I’m not sure he hangs around Chiswick High Road - but… I’ll give it my best shot. May well bump into Beckham…. I had two Jehovah Witness people trying to climb up the watchtower I have erected in my front garden beside my hedge (to get advance warning of PCSO visits) the other day - so anything is possible tonight.
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A ‘Menu’ Of bloggers. I’ll have a No. 1 for starters and then a No. 4 and 10 pls.
If the diminished numbers of us are true, then an Horatii of blawgers, surely? Or, more mundanely, a comment of bloggers.
Geeklawyer Ms R is honoured to be your special guest.
What about these, eh?
A Whingeing of Bloggers.
A GasBag of Bloggers.
A Booze of Bloggers.
A Staggering of Bloggers ( following on from the intial gathering that is the Booze of Bloggers, naturally.)
The fact that I can’t remember the last time I got drunk is either very sad or very bad!
i think birmingham is a great place for you to meet. i shall send a postcard from london.
as a blogger in the legal industry - feel free to disparage my blog without it going to my trade profession or calling - i would be happy to crash this august gathering.
did you see what i did there?
and i assumed you just meant: ‘ello brothers; temple’s not finished then…’
What’s wrong with up North any road?
Leave Birmingham in the Midlands if you don’t mind!
“What term do you use for a gathering of bloggers?”. Wrong question. What distinguishes the best from the rest is that we are blawgers and they are bloggers.
SW: Nothing like an august august gathering….
They’ve been building that bloody temple for years…. can’t get the masons these days…. not like the good old days…. when I were a lad…. or entered apprentice as I should have said…. not!
my uncle always used to say he went to the lodge on thursdays.
the tynemouth lodge (a fantastic real ale pub and definitely worth a visit if you are within 100 miles or so - a stonesthrow from the quayside in north shields where hastings banda once practised as a doctor it’s true, i promise.) was my local and i could never work out why i didn’t see him.
took years before my aunt explained…
i am so innocent.
i sincerely hope nobody has moved birmingham to the north; i’m one of the few people i know who quite likes brum and its brilliant baltis but ‘oi no!’
anyway, jailhouse; i thought you were a blagger…
The Baltis, I will grant you, are a reasonable justification for not bombing Brum.