1 November 2017, 2.30 pm
How exciting! A potential new member has turned up at today’s Council meeting, to see what it is like. LOL. We are all on our best behaviour, to make sure she does not find out what it is like until it is too late and Mr Davies has signed her up for the year. This is the nearest we may get to undergoing an Ofsted inspection and we do not want to embarrass ourselves. The new Pee, who is almost as fierce at chairing as I was, tries to ensure a sprightly romp through the agenda, without the usual repetitions and deviations. He succeeds in one respect, in that he reaches the end of the agenda in record time, but not in another, because several other people in the room are still discussing item 4. Amazingly, instead of being put off by the first thirty minutes, our potential recruit says she wants to continue. I find myself wondering whether she is really a spy, but this is unduly cynical of me and in any case, there is nothing worth spying on in a CIPA Council meeting, unless you enjoy watching paint dry grumpily. So our new recruit is immediately co-opted onto Council (there being a couple of vacancies following the recent election-that-was-not-an-election), there and then, before she can change her mind. It is amazing how rapid the CIPA procedures can be when we put our minds to it. Thus do we have yet another patent attorneyette on Council, which gives me a very warm feeling inside. The male versions are particularly well-behaved today as the news has been breaking about sexual harassment in Westminster and it is becoming clear that being a sleaze-bag, or even hinting at potentially being a sleaze-bag (for example in the pub afterwards), is no longer acceptable. Anyway, no one needs to go to the pub afterwards, because the CIPA wine store has been supplemented by most elegant-looking whisky, brandy and gin bottles. Mr Davies has been doing his stuff. He gives me a dark look and says No, I am not allowed to start on the gin during the Council meeting. I ask you! What is the point having the stuff if you are not going to drink it at the time when you need it the most?
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