28 April 2016, 10 am
One of the students has got bored with the laundry lectures and the elongate longitudinal debate, and left to inspect a trade mark file at the IPO. Or so he says. I thought you inspected files online these days, but apparently not if they contain a lot of paperwork. So much for the digital age. Surely a large amount of paperwork is exactly the problem that electronic file inspection was designed to address? The other student and I sit at our laptops and deal with our emails. He is a noisy worker, who does a lot of sighing and swearing and keeps stopping to share anecdotes, like in a CIPA committee discussion. He shows me more pictures of his Vestal Virgins, and some of a robot that will soon be able to deliver your groceries. I am more attracted to the robot, I have to say, though it looks insufficiently large to carry my weekly grocery shop and insufficiently robust to get up my drive anyway. The emails progress slowly. Soon we decide it is time to break off and have coffee and fruit cake, from our seemingly endless supply of Further and Better Provisions. It is a sad reflection of the ageing process that our chosen snack is fruit cake, rather than half-melted chocolate digestives or packets of Haribo®. But we only really do it for the chance to wrap the fruit cake in one of our new freezer bags.
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