Us lawyers are a friendly, and notorious, bunch. There's apparently something quite sinister about seeing us all together, and we have a tendancy to steer any conversation we have towards law, even if we're talking to non-lawyers. Call it a character defect. But it doesn't stop us doing things with each other both socially and academically.
On Wednesday Janet O'Sullivan invited us to her house for dinner. She lives in a village called Littlebury near Saffron Waldon, so we all hired a taxi to drive us over for the evening, and the fact that we didn't leave until about 1:15 in the morning seems to suggest that things went well!
Her house is really lovely, dating from the 16th century and the reign of the Tudors, it's complete with original Tudor roses in the plasterwork, original wooden ceiling beams and all those uneven walls and floors that make a house a home. Both her and her husband were wonderful hosts for the evening and cooked a really tasty dinner for all of us – even if her son refused to come down the stairs after a bit of a disagreement between them earlier!
It was nice to get out of University for the evening, and even more so to do it with the people I live with there. One of the disadvantages of living in Halls is simply that you don't get to go home at the end of day. Home is university. So going to Janet's house was a nice opportunity to be sociable away from the trappings of University. Hopefully it'll become a yearly event for the other years to appreciate when they find themselves as graduands.
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