North of the Stupid Line

Archive for July, 2005

31 Jul, 2005

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Posted by: Rob

I just finished reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the penultimate offering of JK Rowling in the Harry Potter series. I started reading it on Wednesday morning, so it’s taken me just over 3 days to read 605 pages.
It was quite a different style of book from the previous 5 books, and I [...]

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30 Jul, 2005

Phew!

Posted by: Rob

I am so relieved. I have just completed my assignment on positive discrimination for the LLM. It was 7,561 words in the end, which is a little over the limit, but to be honest, I’m past caring. It was a really difficult subject to get my teeth into, but I think I’ve [...]

29 Jul, 2005

Training Contract

Posted by: Rob

Some excellent news. I’ve *almost* secured a training contract! RAD are now working in partnership with South West London Law Centres (SWLLC) to provide me with a training contract, as RAD wants to keep me committed to RAD for another two years, and also because they know that being a solicitor is my [...]

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28 Jul, 2005

Religion

Posted by: Rob

I am sick and tired of people the world over using their religion as an excuse for their actions. It just means that their unshaken belief in a supreme being or authority who governs all our lives in some way is used to justify acts which fly in the face of common sense. [...]

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28 Jul, 2005

Update

Posted by: Rob

Rather than doing a series of separate posts, I thought I would give you a quick summary of what’s happened in my life since 14 June 2005, as well as what is going to happen over the next few months.
24 Llwynon Road
Rachel and I finally had the keys to our new house on Friday 15 [...]

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  • JGJones: Hear hear - I never understand those "fathers" myself either. My wife once said this quote to me which is very true: "Any man can be a father, but
  • Dafydd: JG: Point taken. Rob: you should have waited :-D
  • JGjones: Dafydd, Android phones are good - but the current hardware that's in UK sucks for them (they're nowhere near as powerful as the iPhone 3GS so you r

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Why North of the Stupid Line? It's quite simple: to signify an individual of subnormal intelligence and general social ignorance. This blog belongs to Rob Wilks (never!) who can be summed up thus: Deaf, married, daddy, happy chappy, smiley, solicitor, Welshman, Cymru.