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Jury Doodle

When jurors get bored, they draw, apparently.

Jury duty has to be the most tedious of all civil duties, and yet it is an integral part of our society and, of course, must be respected and given one’s full attention at all times...

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By on 8/1/09

PASTIES AND PENS

Pasties And Pens

Diggy. Strange name that, but a cool one nonetheless. Diggy Smerdon’s dad certainly thought so. So sure was he that his daughter would grow up to be a blues singer called ‘Diggy Malone’ that he coined it just for her. And it stuck. Or at least the Diggy part did.

But Diggy Smerdon isn’t a blues singer. So who the hell is she? Well, Diggy is a 21 year-old artist and illustrator living in Falmouth, Cornwall, and what’s more, she lives above a Cornish pasty shop. Does it get any better than that, drawing, painting and eating pasties? I can’t imagine it does, but then, as a self-confessed lover of pasties, I’m slightly biased. When I asked Diggy what it’s like to be so fortunate, I sense the pasty thing might not matter to her quite as much as it would to me; too much of a good thing and all that: “There’s no better alarm clock than the wafting aroma of a Cornish pasty drifting through one’s window each morning. Sadly, yes, this is what gets me up, but I guess it beats the buzz of a wretched alarm clock.” Damn right it does.

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By on 21/1/08

SAD BUT TRUE

Sad But True

Barely a day seems to go by without news of someone killed.

On the street where I live, three people have been murdered in the last six months. Last week I came out the tube and all the roads around had been cordoned off. It was six o’clock. A young man had been knifed. A young man had died.

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By on 20/11/07

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