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It was...okay. For a ball consisting of a bunch of lawyers. Wore some very pretty jewellery, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
alsoa, who dashed round on Tuesday evening on a Mission of Mercy. Thing is, to go with the shoes and the evening coat I really needed gold jewellery and I don't possess any. At all. I tend to wear silver or white gold, as I think the colour suits my skin-tone more. But silver simply Would Not Do for this particular outfit.
Looks like I successfully pimped Alsoa vis a vis Firefly. Love, love, love Firefly. Am gutted it was cancelled. Now to pimp others. Hmm, who shall I start with... Lookstemaris's way.
Back to the ball. Must admit was depressed by how fat I looked in my long black sheath dress. Sigh. Hate what the advancing years are doing to my waistline. It gets harder and harder to keep the weight off. Bugger!
But the ball, as these things go, wasn't too bad. The food was edible (and I've been to several corporate shindigs where it wasn't), with a decent menu and was served quickly. Yes, all of that should happen at one of London's top hotels but it certainly isn't guaranteed.
The speeches were actually amusing, particularly the one by a member of Her Majesty's esteemed judiciary, who had quite obviously cut quite a figure when he was at the bar. Definitely a piss artist. Lots of black humour abounded. For example, the judge had been junior counsel to Donald Neilson AKA the Black Panther, who was convicted of the kidnap and murder of heiress Lesley Whittle, together with 4 other murders. The case was one of the cause celebres of the 1970s. Neilson was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He was 40 years old at the time. The judge, together with leading counsel, who was One of the Characters at the Bar, went to visit their client in the cells after the judge had sentenced him.
"Never mind, Donald," leading counsel said, clapping a friendly hand on Neilson's shoulder, "after all, life begins at 40."
Ahem. And yes, Neilson is still inside and is expected to die in prison, subject to any appeal under the Human Rights Act, of course...
Wimped out fairly early, as I knew I'd be working both today and tomorrow. Have too much work to do. Which is bloody annoying. Want to write fanfic. No time. However, am shortly off to a barbecue in sunny Surbiton. Hope the North Circ's okay...
alsoa, who dashed round on Tuesday evening on a Mission of Mercy. Thing is, to go with the shoes and the evening coat I really needed gold jewellery and I don't possess any. At all. I tend to wear silver or white gold, as I think the colour suits my skin-tone more. But silver simply Would Not Do for this particular outfit.Looks like I successfully pimped Alsoa vis a vis Firefly. Love, love, love Firefly. Am gutted it was cancelled. Now to pimp others. Hmm, who shall I start with... Looks
temaris's way. Back to the ball. Must admit was depressed by how fat I looked in my long black sheath dress. Sigh. Hate what the advancing years are doing to my waistline. It gets harder and harder to keep the weight off. Bugger!
But the ball, as these things go, wasn't too bad. The food was edible (and I've been to several corporate shindigs where it wasn't), with a decent menu and was served quickly. Yes, all of that should happen at one of London's top hotels but it certainly isn't guaranteed.
The speeches were actually amusing, particularly the one by a member of Her Majesty's esteemed judiciary, who had quite obviously cut quite a figure when he was at the bar. Definitely a piss artist. Lots of black humour abounded. For example, the judge had been junior counsel to Donald Neilson AKA the Black Panther, who was convicted of the kidnap and murder of heiress Lesley Whittle, together with 4 other murders. The case was one of the cause celebres of the 1970s. Neilson was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He was 40 years old at the time. The judge, together with leading counsel, who was One of the Characters at the Bar, went to visit their client in the cells after the judge had sentenced him.
"Never mind, Donald," leading counsel said, clapping a friendly hand on Neilson's shoulder, "after all, life begins at 40."
Ahem. And yes, Neilson is still inside and is expected to die in prison, subject to any appeal under the Human Rights Act, of course...
Wimped out fairly early, as I knew I'd be working both today and tomorrow. Have too much work to do. Which is bloody annoying. Want to write fanfic. No time. However, am shortly off to a barbecue in sunny Surbiton. Hope the North Circ's okay...
