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Friday night. I never run out of food colouring. Did I saunter into the supermarket and confidently select all the ingredients save for the red food colouring. Yes I did. What do I not have and this cake, with 40 cupcakes (Barbie themed) are to be delivered to a 4 year old tomorrow morning. 🤣

Merry Christmas to all

End of a tiring week. Then this beautiful morning

Criminal barristers this week out of necessity, have learnt about cookies. We couldn’t eat a single one. The nationwide cookie massacre has helped not one jot. As if we don’t have enough to contend with. If you know, you know.

As snow and ice is coming, here’s a list of my ten favourite gritter names… 10. David Plowie 9. Nicole Saltslinger 8. Creedence Clear-Road Survival 7. Spreddie Mercury 6. I Want to Break Freeze 5. We Will Rock(salt) You 4. Super Spreader 3. Thaw and Order 2. Gritter Thunberg 1. Snow-be-gone Kenobi

Word of the day. Get that in your closing speeches!

Word of the day. This one makes me chuckle.

Monday morning. Always a challenge but more so when we have dealt with 17 police station matters over the weekend and we can't get through to custody for outcomes. 25 min on hold to speak to central number for north west courts. Wading through treacle!

Hello! Looking for new bluesky gang who care about the NHS! Twitter is a truly terrible place and I’m sure many of us were connected on there. Could you like and share this, and I’ll follow you back? Ju🤞💙

Billing, stuffing myself with prawn crackers with "The Holiday" on in the background. It's ok to watch Christmas films when preparing to receive novel rejections to bills!

I see the LAA updater advises rate increases in youth court and police station matters. Anyone aware of the details of the police station funding increase?

Where is Geoff Rimmington?

Någon har gjort en Sconehenge och världen blev lite bättre.

Seeking Trainee Solicitor to assist in our conveyancing department. Have you passed the LPC and working as a paralegal? The training contract carrot 🥕 dangled hasn't turned into a contract? We are in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Apply [email protected]

That sort of day, week, month and year in the CJS

Today, my tiny little firm celebrated the admission of a new solicitor, following training. Who would have thought a Twitter shout out for help for a couple of weeks would have worked out so well for all. Happy qualification Miss M, LLB (Hons) Solicitor 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

I love a bit of silly lawyer humour

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Thank you @clairebradley.bsky.social for the nudge!

Hello legal Twitter. I'm late to the party but glad to have found you all again!