A fairly unremarkable day today. No hard commuting but meetings just up the road in Salisbury dealing with the usual complaints and disputes -bread and butter to the litigation lawyer. The evening was taken up with taking Tom to his football practice at Old Sarum Airfield and once back home cajoling him into doing his homework - maths and history. The maths exercise was to measure the area of rhomboids, parallelograms and triangles - useful I suppose if you are going to be a land surveyor but throughout my whole legal career I have never had a case where the outcome of a trial or somebody's liberty has been firmly balanced on knowing the precise area of a right-angled triangle!
I was on much more comfortable ground with the history homework which required Tom to give a short biographical precis of the lives of Henry VIII's six queens with no rhomboids in sight - not even any mathematical calculations as to the speed or size of an axe required to part a Queen's head from her body. Tom seemed to grasp the concept of "adultery" and "non-consummation" with ease but not treaties with foreign countries like Cleves. The discovery that Cleves was once part of Germany fired the imagination towards blitzkriegs and panzer divisions. Another piece of history for another time I guess.
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