Mark Herbert

@peter_sarris Deeply sorry to read this news

Devastated to hear that the wonderful Dame Averil Cameron has passed away. She was a groundbreaking scholar of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, a trailblazer for women in academia, a devout Christian and someone who managed to be both formidable and loveable. A true great.

Very interesting report on the effects of continuing working life on women affected by increased increases in the state pension age. Better to be at work than dressing up as a suffragette and campaigning with the only result so far to make money for PR consultants and lawyers!

Thread of beautiful Art Deco designs 🧵 1. Cincinnati Union Terminal

Look Up. This is what a great ceiling looks like. It's St. Mary's Basilica in Kraków, Poland, built 700 years ago. But that's just one breathtaking example, so here are 21 more... 🧵

Impasse at Gibson Square. Central London isolated (cit)

@edithmayhall I once played the Megarian at #KCL trying a regional accent to highlight the Dorian Greek. I doubt anyone noticed. @KenZeroHarm might remember

Having fun writing an article about Aristophanes' Acharnians. I love the detail in this drawing of a performance in 1882: the Megarian's piglet-daughter! The Persian King's "Eye" (spy), Lamachus the bellicose general, Amphitheos the libation-truce god, recumbent Euripides.

@edithmayhall @katrinajkelly The one on the left, please, and I agree with those who have commented on the skin tones and the inverted commas around Iliad

Pleae help me choose from these two covers for my eco-Iliad book. I am inclined to go for the one with Achilles fighting the river with the proviso that the peachy skins are replaced with dark brown or black. Thanks once again to @katrinajkelly for the title.

Italians are the SMARTEST people on earth. Even with obesity rates growing, Italy is still one of the healthiest countries. So how do they manage this? Here's the 6 things I found Italian’s are doing, that American’s aren’t. (🧵+ simple steps you can follow)

Just returned from a 5 day pilgrimage, walking from London to Canterbury with no money, tent, phone, or much of a plan other than to keep walking until I got there. It was a hard but peaceful & rich experience, through layers of history & miles of exquisitely beautiful nature…

Please join in our daily Diocesan prayers as we pray for the chaplaincies of: Florence: Help them to ensure they are meeting the needs of visitors and regulars. Genova: We pray for official approval for their new church constitution & the appointment of a new chaplain soon

@edithmayhall The artist does not seem to have had any doubt about the ambiguity. Still, it’s a harsh punishment even in Athena’s book. The supposed lover is making a run for it without any visibly heroic attempt to protect Ismene, but is that Tydeus’s horse which he seems to be commandeering?

Ismene is familiar as Antigone's meeker sister, but in a racier tradition she was killed by the thuggish Tydeus (one of the 7 v. Thebes) on Athena's order when he found her having intercourse (the word προσομιλοῦσαν is as ambiguous in Greek) with her lover Periclymenus. UNFAIR!

@BarbaraRich_law @hjbrander @lincolnsinn That is such sad news. I send my condolences too. Catherine was also a very conscientious co-trustee of the Inn’s staff pension scheme and was much loved by everyone who knew her. She will be greatly missed.

@hjbrander @lincolnsinn Echoing Helen, I am truly sorry to read this. It’s hard to imagine the library without Catherine’s presence. Sincere condolences to her family, friends and colleagues

It is with great regret that we report the death of Catherine McArdle, Deputy Librarian. Catherine passed away peacefully on Sunday 28 January. She had worked at the Inn since 1988 and was a much-loved colleague and friend. We send our deepest condolences to Catherine’s family.

@BarbaraRich_law @hjbrander @kirby_pj Drop in on us while you are here. WhatsApp for preference

@hjbrander @MarkHerbert8 @kirby_pj I went to Italy on family holidays several times as a child, and always thought it was the most to-be-dreamed of destination. And have returned several times as an adult, but still only visited a fraction of the places I would like to

@hjbrander @BarbaraRich_law @kirby_pj True, but some of us stop somewhere else on the way

@BarbaraRich_law @hjbrander Also staying close to my best friend from Bar school. Dear reader, she married me. And we are heading towards Italy as well

@hjbrander He’s also obviously a very talented cook and photographer. My closest friend from Bar school went to live and work in Sydney in 2004 but we have remained close and enjoyed a lot of time together in the UK and elsewhere since then

@JohnRalfe1 @HoskingTheTimes Probably good news for some lawyers and actuaries. Dealing with surpluses was big business at least from the mid 1980s

thetimes.co.uk/article/pensio… 380 comments on this piece by @HoskingTheTimes - pretty much all of them (or at least as far as I managed to get...) think it's a dreadful ides. Anyone think it's a good idea...?

@BarbaraRich_law Congratulations!

I’m pleased to be shortlisted as Court of Protection junior of the year in the Legal 500 Bar Awards 2023, and grateful to those who recommended me, especially as I feel I’ve reached the career stage of vying for a legal awards equivalent of the mums’ and dads’ egg and spoon race

@hjbrander I hear the sound of a book review, plus several possible articles here for Private Client Business

@BarbaraRich_law @LottieJohn1 @MrSkinnerTweet @Shiv_who_burns @gifford_head My earlier reply about joking was meant as an attachment to this one about David Hayton. I evidently need to be educated about how to use Twitter

@BarbaraRich_law @LottieJohn1 @MrSkinnerTweet @Shiv_who_burns @gifford_head I have a memory-trace that David Hatton once claimed that all important jurisdiction has either a rule for fixed shares or a system for invoking a judicial discretion, with the single exception of North Dakota

Is a will made by a terminally ill woman the day before marriage valid or did she die intestate leaving her fortune to her husband? It is arguable that beneficiaries of the will have rectification claim to prove will was made in contemplation of marriage dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

@BarbaraRich_law @LottieJohn1 @MrSkinnerTweet @Shiv_who_burns @gifford_head He was probably joking, but anyway it is interesting that Mexico is an exception too

@BarbaraRich_law @LottieJohn1 @MrSkinnerTweet @Shiv_who_burns @gifford_head I am more in favour of the English solution than fixed shares, even though the outcome of potential 1975 Act litigation is often unpredictable