Law Against Loneliness: 22 May

The Lawyer Fringe Festival

Creatives are having a hard time of it at the moment so we want to publicise their work during lockdown. If you’ve got a recommendation of a creative business doing something that lawyers can support, let us know at the usual email address.

The Insiders

If you’re a fan of escape rooms, why not try The Insiders, a new experience from the Reading-based escape room Deadlocked?

Dubbed as an ‘escape room experience at home’, for only £9.99 you get three ‘episodes’ and hours worth of enjoyment. You can play alone or in a team across Skype or Zoom – in fact it’s perfect for your next online work social.

Video of the Day

WFW legal PA Rachel King sang alongside a staggering 275 members of her choir, London City Voices to record their own version of Carole King’s, ‘You’ve Got a Friend’ from their homes for Women’s Aid Federation of England. They have now raised over £42,000.

Podcast of the Day

Reply All is a podcast broadly about the minutiae of the internet. Start with episode 158, The Case of the Missing Hit. A man in California is haunted by the memory of a 1990s pop song. He can remember the lyrics and the melody. But the song itself has vanished, completely scrubbed from the internet. Did it ever really exist?

Freaking out with my dad about this this morning. I don't think a podcast has ever made me laugh with joy at the end like this hashttps://t.co/DdsGtxww4O

— Gam Silroy (@skgilroy) May 16, 2020

Dogs of the Day

Christie Guimond of White & Case writes: “While some people panic bought toilet roll, I panic-bought a puppy…” This is Hershey at 12 weeks old.

And from LawRocks founder Nick Child: “Charlie (right) and Lola (left – when you have five children this is what happens to your dogs’ names).”

“Charlie likes to think he is a big dog, even though he is not a big dog (I hope he doesn’t read this). Lola suffers her little brother, but only just. Charlie’s favourite thing is to bite his big sisters ears. Lola’s favourite thing is to work out how to lure Charlie into the path of a combined harvester somewhere on the farm that they live on. But generally they are brilliant to have around.”

Yesterday’s quiz answers

Theme: Hidden law firms

Once I publicly defended eight rowers with masterful brightness; they were even travelling from Notting Hill Gate – Leyton, quite a discovery given how far Leyton is. I wonder (in German or Glasgow lingo) if a female’s laughter overawes single men, even with their hair windswept like Heathcliff or Darcy. If ever she’d stop, this might produce surprising odd ardour with ersatz charm.  Should a hedgehog and sherbert lemons, scampi, perhaps with lamb, urge someone to barbecue, or at least char wood?  Not for the squeamish. Contemplating an extra version of this text via a hyperlink later. See you guys later!