15th February, 2009 - Ten Things I Love About my Job #3

I like The Law. This seems like an odd thing to say, but I do. I like its complexity and its adaptability and the way it has grown over the years like some rather ancient mansion belonging to an ancient family. It was constructed generations ago on the site of some other prehistoric building, and over the years an extension has been added here, a garden room there. Parts have been remodelled and built over again, and now and again, a whole wing is demolished to make way for some ne an unsympathetic modernist annex.

But on the whole, it is an interesting place to wander around in, with twisting corridors linking unlikely rooms, and doors into hidden gardens.