La Demi-Rentree The picture is by Alexander Wyant, and is entitled A Summer Haunt , from 1881. I found it here, on The Blog of An Art Admirer and History Lover . Right. One half-bottle of Les Nivieres ('The Best French Supermarket Wine Since Decimalisation'), some Waitrose fish fingers with mayonnaise, a couple of veal escalopes in Parsley butter, some almond and fig wedge with a very runny cheese, and a plate of fried bananas and strawberries and...well, I'm back. I've been teaching and lecturing like a crazy man for the weeks up to today, and have loved it. The summer has been long and golden. A course on the revolutionary Atlantic of the seventeenth and eighteenth century in Merton, two lectures on trade law in Brunel, four on critical thinking, and a lot of law undergraduates wanting someone to explain public law to them, have left me very happy. It goes without saying that the work, which isn't really work, couldn't be avoided. I needed to get out and earn...
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