I was a little surprised, not to say bemused, to find that yesterday I had visitors arriving here from the Creative Review Blog. It's a reminder to us bloggers (and our commenters) that whatever we write remains out there in the public domain. Not that that worries me, of course. But it does make you ponder quite why an 18th month-old discussion on this blog should be cited in support of the notion of attaching the letters CDes to your name. Wouldn't Creative Review have better got it straight from the horse's mouth, as it were? Ah, I forgot: the horse in question doesn't like to be asked questions.
The whole thing puts me in mind of an amusing little exchange that I witnessed when I sat as a juror at a Coroner's Court last year. I didn't tell you at the time, but I had been elected as foreman of the jury and it was my responsibility to complete an official form that determines the cause and circumstances of death, which then goes on the public record. And the form that is presented in each case (by the Coroner to the jury) is already partially completed. Now in the first case we heard, we (that is me, with the agreement of the other members of the jury) duly entered the time, place and circumstances of death, based upon the evidence given. But the pre-completed part of the form gave a different place of death (a hospital, to which the body had been transferred). Anyway, there was a smart young lawyer present (representing one of the parties involved) who made great play with the notion that their was a 'mischief' in the paperwork, because there were two places of death cited.
I say that the exchange (between the lawyer and the Coroner) was amusing, simply because the word 'mischief' isn't one that you would expect to hear in such circumstances. But then this was a lawyer, and he knew precisely what the word 'mischief' meant in that context.
And I'm wondering whether the Creative Review Survey on this matter isn't a means of creating a little mischief of its own.
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