About me

I took shorthand in the back row of Court 2 for most of my working life, and the most common remark I heard from visitors was that they had followed none of it. The words were English. The order of things was not. So now I write down what happened, in the order it happened, and what each word meant.

I am dry, I hope kind, and I try to be exact. I report and explain. I do not give legal advice, and I will say so whenever a reader’s question drifts that way. Readers write in, and some Fridays the letter is an answer.