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Jacob Gifford Head

@giffordhead.co.uk

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I'm a barrister & mediator. Things I like include: legal history & legal oddities; music & musical instruments; Mesopotamian history; & Portuguese wine and Port. My professional website is: http://www.giffordhead.co.uk Forgive typos.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 7h

I assume it would be one way to get into the law reports, as the courts invent a new tort to stop it.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 7h

There was some quite good mid-War music, too, like A Child of Our Time.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 7h

So you are saying I should have some made but with my rivals' details on them?

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 7h

This is why we can't have nice things any more.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 8h

Someone, someday, will dreg the writ of fieri facias de bonis ecclesiasticis out of the darkest reaches of the CPR...

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 9h

This has encouraged me to look up the prices of bamboo flutes and whistles on AliExpress. About 60p to £1.60. Now trying desperately to work out how I could justify having branded versions of these to give out for my legal practice...

Kristin Naigus 🎙🪈 @fieldofreeds.bsky.social · 9h

For years I've wanted my own woodwinds to hand out at conferences, so I finally ordered some. If you're going to GameSoundCon or GDC and want a special kazoo, come talk to me! 🎶

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 9h

Amazing stuff!

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 10h

I sometimes wonder what Edward Said would have made of some of the coverage of the UAE. Both positive and negative. I can't all be seen in terms of Orientalism but a surprising amount can be.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 10h

What surprised me on having a look on Friday was how certain groups of people I used to follow seem still quite strong there, like those posting from Japan & other Far Eastern countries; and loads of the Ecclesiastical Law people. I couldn't really work out a common theme.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 10h

You'll be longing for those days within a year when it becomes "I asked Chat GPT"!

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 12h

Or maybe he'd like to be Duke of York? We could tidy this all up with one act.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 13h

Maybe that's it. Though I think the moment may have passed for that!

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 13h

Yes. I recognise quite a few of those. An electric bath was a 19th Century alternative medicine which charged the patient with static electricity. A few others might have been jokes though.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 14h

I remember digging out the entry for the will of William Bainbridge who claimed to have invented the double flageolet in c1803 in the probate records. Someone had corrected his occupation from "flageolet maker" to "patent flageolet maker" which I guess shows how important precision can be about this

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 19h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 14h

A piece of trivia: that bust lives in the Dukes Hall which is the Royal Academy of Music's concert hall. It gets a little holiday to Kensington each Summer.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 16h

Is this a house prices thing or something else? I appreciate there are lots of very expensive things in the Centre or West End but then I feel everything is quite expensive in most major European cities these days. And the SE of England generally.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 16h

One of the big problems with a lot of this discourse is that it treat "opera" as homogeneous when it contains so many different traditions. Jenůfa is much closer to something like an Ibsen play than it is to La fille du régiment. People dont normally make sweeping statements about say "writing".

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 17h

The 1917 act refers to "the present war" which makes me wonder why it hasn't been repealed as part of a Statute Law Repeals project.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 18h

I've always fancied somewhere overlooking the water in Christianshavn, Copenhagen. Stockholm is a little too cold for my tastes in winter!

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 18h

I'm always surprised that these travel stories seem to be written by people who think the only people who travel are British or EU citizens, going to the UK or Schengen Area.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

If you are rich by London standards you don't have to limit yourself to one, I would have thought...

(Or you could just take a piano nobile overlooking the Grand Canal in Venice!)

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

Isn't it fundamentally a question of personal preference? I have nothing against Brussels but if I had free choice, it wouldn't be at the top of the list. But I also think that you can't really make an assessment of where to live without living there, which makes most of these decisions uninformed.

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

I remember that robust letter Jon Holbrook received from Derek Sweeting when he complained about some slight by the Bar Council which was in a similar vein.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

I had to look up the fourth! (Little Maplestead; I knew about Cambridge and the Temple.) I was amused that Wikipedia provides a list of modern British round churches including the Catholic Cathedral in Liverpool.

Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 1d

I usually go to Roti King but it's a small place with a fast turnover so not suitable for a lingering dinner. Alternatively, I quite like Hoppers but that's become a small chain.

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