Its been a busy week for me, work-wise. I’m not complaining, but sometimes it’s nice to just chill out of an evening. I was on the go Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night, and didn’t actually sit down and chill until Monday night.

On Monday I attended the YSG Pro Bono Awards at the Law Society and witnessed my matey Clare Norriss win not one but two awards! You can read more about it here.

On Wednesday I gave a talk at Clifford Chance’s Canary Wharf offices for the Solicitors Pro Bono Group LawWorks Clinics on how to advise deaf clients. It was the first time I did the talk in BSL, and I have to say I think my talk was a bit more SSE than BSL.

Thinking back, I seem to remember the reaction of the audience members (mainly consisting of trainee solicitors – bastards) when I said “I’m now going to do the rest of this talk in BSL”. Some of them were like “huh?”. I thought I’d better reassure them, “don’t worry, I have my interpreter here with me today so she will do a voiceover. You will be able to understand what I’m signing.” Quite amusing. What surprised me most was the lack of reaction. At the end, no one wanted to ask any questions. There was no applause. This was a stark contrast to the previous talk I did, where we finished to rapturous applause and quite a few questions.

Thursday – collapsed.