Not posted a book haul all year despite having a few additions to the library. So here's yesterday's picks from the Chorlton football trip. #bookhaul #charityshopbooks #footballbooks #nowreading #Rumpole #books #MarlowMurderClub
You don't need to be #JohnnieCochran or #Rumpole of the Bailey. To know no lawyer would advise #PrinceAndrew to give evidence in any #Epstein enquiry in UK or travel to USA to give evidence before Congress. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor would be mad to leave the UK ever again. #r4today #Newsnight
A black & white photo, captioned “Temple Underground station, District Line by Dr Heinz Zinram, Sep 1958” - the viewpoint is from the station platform and we’re looking at a small tiled section of wall, with stairs leading up either side of it, the Temple Underground sign centre, an illustrated tourist poster feat. St Paul’s cathedral to left and a text-heavy London Airport information one to the right
Back with #Rumpole, who went abroad - “I began to feel an unendurable nostalgia for rain, secretaries rubbing their noses pink with crumpled paper handkerchieves on the platform at Temple Station and the congealed steak & mushroom pie for luncheon in the pub opposite the Old Bailey” #JohnMortimer 📚💙
The 1988 Penguin Books edition of ‘The Second Rumpole Omnibus’ by John Mortimer
‘We…had luncheon in the crypt under the Law Courts, a sepulchral hall, where, it seemed, very old plaice and chips come to die’
Enjoying spending time with #Rumpole again: £2.99 from the always excellent Oxfam, Turnham Green #NowReading #JohnMortimer 📚💙
Three book haul today from charity shops of Chorlton. Restrained myself and kept to my rules. #AgathaChristie #PGWodehouse #JohnMortimer #Rumpole #books #booksky #bookcollector #reading #charityshop
Can't go to Chorlton with coming back with a book haul. Football, comedy, politics, fiction.
I must read more than I bring in!
#Labour #Rumpole #Arsenal #ManchesterUnited #Campion #SpikeMilligan #books #Chorlton #booksky #booklovers #reading #tbr
Black Cat Appreciation Day! Remember basic black is elegant and goes with everything.
#cats #blackcats #rumpole #mystery
Opened wine isn't it. #rumpole
Though #JohnMortimer died back in 2009, I still have vivid memories of meeting and interviewing him for a profile I wrote for British Heritage Magazine way back in 1996. You can read my John Mortimer profile here: www.madkane.com/mortimer.html
#Mortimer #Rumpole #Authors #Brits #Interview #Profile
A Double Dactyl For John Mortimer:
Higgledy Piggledy
John Clifford Mortimer
Barrister, Author,
Rumpolian wit.
Bailey, his bailiwick
Prima-facetiously
He and his Horace sure
Loved to acquit.
#JohnMortimer #Rumpole #DoubleDactyl #Authors #Barristers #Humor #Humour #Poetry #MicroPoetry #LightVerse
I’m delighted to have this free, electronic copy, of the book Horace Rumpole and I keep on our bedside tables! I must confess that Leo McKern is far better at reciting these poems than I shall ever be.
#JohnMortimer
#Rumpole
#EnglishVerse
www.gutenberg.org/files/66619/...
A blonde curly haired dog curled up on a couch covered by a brown blanket
Someone got very wet on our walk this morning, now curled up on the couch under a blanket. #Rumpole #Melbourne
You're going to struggle Rumpole, Special Branch shot dead the other man #Rumpole
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
12/20
#BookSky #Rumpole #ChateauFleetStreet #BritishJustice #BookChallenge
Book cover: “Rumpole for the Defence” by John Mortimer; audiobook read by Bill Wallis (Bolinda, 2016); originally “Regina v. Rumpole” (Allen Lane, 1981)
Seven further trials, adapted from the 1980 BBC Radio series (plus one Play for Today). Behind Rumpole’s cynical bluster and his numerous personal and professional setbacks, Mortimer offers up ingenious case studies in legal defence. Bill Wallis’s audiobook reading is superbly Rumpole-like. #Rumpole
#DrWho Ian and Barbara were arrested on their return to 1965 in connection with the disappearance of Susan and her Grandfather. Put on trial #Rumpole got them off due to lack of bloodstain evidence. John and the Smiths later featured the pair on the sleeve of their single 'Life Is So Dreary'
Drawing zombies and binge watching Rumpole of the Bailey.
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#rumpoleofthebailey #rumpole #leomckern #johnmortimer #artistlife
spending my morning with Horace and cant help but notice that the SASS is very strong with that one!!! O_o #Rumpole
STOP GIGGLING!!! *melts some more* Dear God, stop it!!! #Rumpole
ALL THE SASS!!! God, I've forgotten how amazing BC's Rumpole is... #Rumpole
Ohh, he's narrating himself this time? Me likey! #Rumpole
STOP THAT!!!! *melts* #Rumpole
