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2May2016

Monday smile – Ducks unruffled

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ducksWe go to the New Zealand legal archives today for some judicial wit involving a music festival and a duck pond…

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25Apr2016

Monday smile – Sniffing out sausages

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dog noseHot on the heels of my post about Gigi the sniffer cat at the French gendarmerie comes news from the UK that its team of detection dogs have failed to meet their targets.

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18Apr2016

Monday smile – A rose by any other name

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roseblackbackgroundA very wry Monday smile today, involving employment disputes – not at all funny for the employees concerned.

But let’s start with a little Shakespeare…

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.”

But not in these cases…

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11Apr2016

Monday smile – Moose hunting by hovercraft

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mooseJust in case you have ever considered hunting moose by hovercraft…

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4Apr2016

Monday smile – French gendarmerie’s feline brigade

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cat sniffsLast Friday brought with it quite a few funny hoaxes, but I think this one is actually worth implementing…

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28Mar2016

Monday smile – Le chocolat et l’histoire

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debauve gallaisEdifying chocolate? Healthy chocolate? Historical chocolate?

In Paris… of course! 😉

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21Mar2016

Monday smile – The Pomodoro Technique

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Today’s post is fun and certainly ludique, but I hope it may also be useful to some readers.

The Pomodoro Technique is a way to manage time, developed by the Italian Francesco Cirillo in the 1980s – it took me a while to find out about it ;-).

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14Mar2016

Monday smile – Contracts and confectionery

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mandmsA little dose of urban myth today – about a much-discussed rider to contracts involving the pop group Van Halen, requiring there to be “no brown M&Ms” in the confectionery set out for the musicians when they were playing a gig.

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7Mar2016

Monday smile – Shakespeare and the law

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29Feb2016

Monday smile – Leap year law

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Inter-gravAs today is very special sort of Monday, I did a bit of hunting and found a lovely piece of clear writing for you 😉 …

 

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