Eurostar

An email to me from Lawyer2B. A top City law firm is promoting a (paid - laudable) work experience scheme.The text starts: 'You have ambitions to be a world-class lawyer'. I jumped, but then thought it's a bit late.

The language is interesting. It could have started as a rhetorical question, but the drafting team went for painting a word picture of how a person might see themselves and their potential - classic aspiration marketing. Hopefully it will result in plentiful applications, though one should always be chastened by 'Many are called.....'.

I had vowed not to return to these, but so much happens day-to-day in the miscellany of life that it seems a shame not to jot anything down. One change from previous format: nothing party political.  

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Worth returning just for this. In a pub in Kentish Town, tried out for the first time. Really a bar shoe-horned into a former proper pub. A search for at least one hand-pulled ale. There is one. Just one, the house bitter. Bar staff member (gender reference not appropriate) approaches:

'Two pints of bitter, please', I ask.