Tenterden Pudding Club

Posted by Justin on Mar 26, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, accountants, banks, estate agents, lawyers, local, lunch, professionals, small towns, Tenterden | 2 comments Once a month (on the last Friday in each month), various Tenterden-based professionals and business people (solicitors, accountants, estate agents, IFAs, telecom consultants, bank managers, insurance brokers, etc) get together for an informal, single-course lunch and a bit of networkingThere is no need to commit to attending (nor to apologise if you cannot attend), but if you are in business in...
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Rush Witt & Wilson return to Tenterden

Posted by Justin on Mar 26, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, estate agents, local, small towns, Tenterden | 0 comments Rush Witt & Wilson are estate agents with offices in Battle, Rye, Hastings, Bexhill and St Leonards. They did also open an office in Tenterden, but closed it when the economy went down the tubesIn what may be a sign that the economy (or, at least, the local housing market) is improving, I hear they are re-opening their Tenterden office on Saturday 3 April – you can even enter a free...
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Just testing Twitter feed

Posted by Justin on Mar 23, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, Uncategorized | 0 comments
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Always learning, always improving

Posted by Justin on Mar 23, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, conveyancing, HIPs, lawyers, legal system, risk, training | 0 comments I spent all of today on a conveyancing CPD (continuous professional development) course in Tunbridge Wells.While most of the content was not new, it provided a forum for some interesting discussions with other solicitors about practices, procedures and attitudes to risk – and about “clients from hell”!It also left me with about a dozen possible improvements to make to paperwork...
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"Tragedy at Law" by Cyril Hare

Posted by Justin on Mar 20, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, Uncategorized | 0 comments Just finished reading this – on the advice of P D James, no less – “Written with elegance and wit” – and thoroughly enjoyed itNot a thriller, but a “whodunnit – and why?” it is truly elegant and quite captivating. A detailed account of a near closed room mystery with a legal background and well-described characters, the outcome is both surprising...
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Small town delights (number 99 in an infinite series)

Posted by Justin on Mar 20, 2010 in Abaddons Musings, small towns, Tenterden | 0 comments This morning, while shopping in Tenterden with my daughter, I was approached by a postman in Waitrose with a recorded delivery letter that he had tried to deliver to my home earlier.He had left the usual card, so that I could collect the item from the sorting office. However, seeing me go into Waitrose, he followed, and I was able to take and sign for the item there.That’s what I call...
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