Oh, How my Heart does Pound!
July 10, 2007 by Ruthie
Dear Diary,
Lawks, but can it be true? Mistress Ruthie would have it that the Legal Cyber World is agossiping over Me! And to think that never before have I merited so much as a Judge’s oath (and those are after all most commonly given - especially, I hear, on the Wales and Chester Circuit) - truly these are Strange and Exciting Times.
And Mistress Ruthie has such peculiar and interesting friends. I do believe that there is some history ‘tween her and the one who calls himself Geeklawyer (yet, I do not know the forepart of that word and thought t’was Greeklawyer til Mistress Ruthie corrected me. Oh how foolish I felt - I blush). And Miner Junior (I suppose so called because he comes from that rough county where lads are apple cheeked and play cricket). And Alex (I do hope she will be a friend to me). Indeed, it is all so exciting to think that these people do speculate over my identity - why, as if it mattered.
And yet, and yet. A lawyer’s jealousy is a terrible thing. After all ’tis so easy for them to Request Further Information and then to take it much amiss. They may make Motions in my direction and - oh I dread to think of it - they might strike out at me. I do not think I could bear that, so shy and retiring am I. And you know, dear, dear Diary that I do most value how inconspicuous I am and, next to that (and as from last Friday - that most blest of days) Mistress Ruthie’s friendship (as I hope I may dare to call it). So I think I will perhaps not yet say who it is that will be assisting her. Besides, ’twill be good and interesting for them all to guess, for games do make fun for all.
In due course, dear dear Diary, I may let a little more slip. But always most decorous, of course. ‘Til then I shall have to let my words speak for me and their content show that I am most worthy of my Mistress’ trust - as I hope most earnestly that I shall always be. Oh! What it is to feel so fully what I am. And that is,
Your
Victorian Maiden.
WTF?
Too subtle for you?
Have you all been reading Alastair Campbell’s diaries… or have you been at the juice…. GL… I include you in this question.
Is your new co-blogger Barbara Cartland?
It may have been the Rioja consumed this night… but this came to mind…
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
I shall look forward to the development of the battle of the blogs…
I may well have a glass of grappa…. and await as matters unfold…
I’m not keen on pathetic sub-Jane Austen parodies. Charon QC is entirely right. Tell your new co-blogger to unwrap her heaving bosom and get on with the law.
I thought it was an amusing introduction and the whole Mistress Ruthie thing gives me worringly warm feelings.
I am getting complaints that there is a lack of leather, in particular pink leather on this blog. One has to pander to the basic instincts of the readership otherwise they become restless and discontent. Still the leather would seem to suit Mistress Ruthie very well, so I think its time to sort out some pictures…
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For the avoidance of doubt - I found the parody amusing…hence the wry comment!
I shall continue to enjoy all the blogs I visit and look forward, on this blog, to more from you and the new co-blogger.
All this needless sniping smacks more of Sheridan than of Austen, I’m afraid…
Forgive Miss Bloggs if she is much mistaken but wasn’t Jane Austen dead some two decades before Queen Victoria came to the throne? Most of her novels are set during the Regency period and don’t usually feature cockney house-servant expressions such as “lawks”!
That said, I’m inclined to agree with Mr Myerson QC: I’m looking forward to Ruthie’s Law rising above Geeklawyer’s provocative, somewhat unnecessarily unkind comments and addressing some serious legal issues
The readers have spoken: law and leathers it is.
In the meantime I seem to be collecting a veritable manufactured girl band of silks; I’ve got Posh and Baby, all I need now is Ginger, Scary and Sporty…
I’m looking forward to Ruthie’s Law rising above Geeklawyer’s provocative, somewhat unnecessarily unkind comments
what? I can\’t read my remarks as unkind; my initial comment (WTF?) being perhaps a tad undiplomatic but not unkind - and my own post did no more than comment on th fickle atavistic nature of the audience.
Certainly I know that Ruthie understands I was not being unkind or sniping.
Trust me, when I am being unkind you\’ll know - I don\’t do subtlety and when I do I don\’t.
Well ok, I’m also looking forward to GeekLawyer’s Blog rising above making provocative comments about Ruthie
Your posts were laugh-out-loud funny before they strayed into the realms of domestic spats and childish bickering…
GL: I think JB was referring to your comments about me on the Geeklawyer Blog.
Yes, she was
Thought I’d pop in and see how Ruthie’s new co-blogger is doing.
So now Ruthie has a co-blogger and Geeklawyer has one as well. This should prove interesting.
With the lovely CharonQC weighing both blogs should prove to be interesting.
As I have been accused, rather hurtfully, that Ruthie is number one in my heart I would like to point out that though I do have Ruthie’s blog bookmarked, the very first one on my list is Geeklawyer’s. Will the positioning of the bookmarks change in the future, I don’t know. But in the interest of self-preservation I had to “publicly” declare support towards one “master”.
On a happy note, you don’t have one of those pesky spam protection questions which causes me no end of headache’s with GL’s blog. I ask you, how can I possibly know the answer to 2+7…. it’s madness….the abacus has never been used so heavily before. I salute your courage in the face of soon to be impending spam!