3 March 2016, 12.30 pm
Now I am having lunch with Mr Roberts and the lovely man from Queen Mary College and the lovely man’s best mate, who runs the Certificate in IP Law course. This is highlight number two of the day. The lovely man and his mate know a lovely restaurant at which they are so well-known that the waitress writes their order before they’ve even looked at the lovely menu. This puts me at a bit of a disadvantage, but it doesn’t stop me talking about all sorts of mad-cap schemes. I am truly in blue-sky mode at the moment. I give up trying to read the menu and ask the waitress for the goat’s cheese followed by the duck breast. There is always something with goat’s cheese on a starter menu and there is usually something with duck breast in the main courses, so it’s worth taking a punt. The waitress seems happy enough. We talk about training the patent attorneys of the future. Then we drift on to talking about the future more generally, which is right up Mr Roberts’s street because he loves making things up. When we have done with the future, he brings us back down to earth by telling us about The Black EyePees, which is a band he put together for a CIPA Battle of the Bands once and then forgot to dismantle afterwards, so that it has gone on and on shouting at CIPA members to music ever since. Mr Davies has booked The Black EyePees for our 125th Charter Anniversary Gala Dinner in July. This is going to be an extremely dignified and stately affair, apart from the after-dinner entertainment, which will be lots of shouting to music.
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