Kate Jamieson / KJ ⚓️

The sighs emitted by this dog. Surrounded by toys, 3-4 walks a day, all the snacks, has claimed most of the household furniture as his own, and contributes nothing to the mortgage or bills...

What ails you, my little freeloader?

Cruelly dragged from Greece as a stray to live a life of hardship 🙄

I turned up as the Redoutable struck her colours so... 😂

Popped down to see Trafalgar being played by the Naval Wargames Society ⚓️

All figures by @warlordgames.com bar 2 on the table.

I should probably finish painting and rigging mine at some point...

I genuinely never understood why people like any of these films, and I was always deeply concerned about the person who came up with the challenges for the films? I feel like they must be secret serial killers

A collection of books arranged on a table, all on the subject of maritime art and archaeology

Watery environments don't usually mix well with libraries, but we've found a way to make it work!

"Decks and Wrecks: a Voyage through Maritime Art and Archaeology" is now available for you to peruse on the ground floor.

Every time you use stupid ChatGPT, a thing that I once saw get a long multiplication sum wrong, it uses ten times as much electricity as searching the same thing on Google and the server cooling systems mean each use consumes half a litre of water.

The skeleton of the Mary Rose's dog, Hatch.

A frosted acrylic outline of a rat, with four bones resting on itl, including a pelvis.

a blurry microscope image of a flea, recovered from a piece of sackcloth recovered from the Mary Rose.

Happy #WorldAnimalDay!

There were a few animals on the Mary Rose, some invited, others no so much...

maryrose.org/blog/the-ani...

Oh 100000% 😂 he did good, as the kids say

Well see this is what I mean I got loads of really good advice from a senior partner I know at HFW yesterday. So I know the options, I'm just trying to find somebody who might have already done it

So I currently work in private maritime security

I am currently working in subsea cable installation which is also damp 😂

I think the lawyerly bit but ofc maritime is where I'd head based on the last decade of work. And wet rather than dry

Oh no they're great songs

Ahaha imagine

I was talking to somebody from HFW yesterday who gave me some really good advice. He also said that there are a few firms that take on people who aren't lawyers but can do the maritime side of things so maybe that's a better way of trying to find a role although I suspect they are fairly limited

Yeah and somebody told me you could go straight to SQE but it would be making life very very difficult for yourself. I did a year of Law as an undergrad but the way it was taught was just awful and I didn't get on with it

Yeah so a lot of the stuff over here is geared up to applying for training contracts when you're in your final year of undergrad and there isn't a lot on there about making a switch with relevant industry experience in your 30s/alternative routes

Find yourself someone who knows you're having a chaotic awful work day already and deliveroos you snacks 😂💕🥰

😂😂😂

There are obviously quite a few Master Mariners and people who don't have a legal background working in maritime law, so the solicitor route isn't necessarily the only way to go but any advice would be welcomed

I've had lots of advice and been told that my day job background would create me a very perfect niche in the legal world in a world that is only becoming more hostile.

It's just the practicalities that my brain struggles with. All of the advice online seems to be geared up to new grads

Considering dropping out of my PhD to do a law conversion. I've been thinking about it for quite a few years but after speaking to solicitors this week, I think I've reached the point where my career is no longer a challenge / I need it to be.

Have any of you have done a conversion / SQEs recently?

Detail from an 18th-century print depicting bewigged James Graham riding astride a large phallic instrument labelled 'Largest in the World' as a little duck says 'quack quack quack' at his feet

Feels a bit early in the day to be posting this, but if I'm spending the morning with 18th-century sex therapist & supposed 'Prince of the Quacks' Dr James Graham then so can you 🍆

I reckon so!

Listening to happy sappy romantic Taylor Swift when you're happy and sappy is a vibe 🥰🫠💕

Someone suggested perhaps the cat I saw earlier is a gingeranium 🌸

Yeah it miraculously broke down when I picked up the dog so I couldn't go anywhere on Sunday

Statue of Horatio 'Horny for Emma' Nelson, overlooking Portmouth Harbour.

@kejamieson.bsky.social explained you should never leave a debutante unaccompanied near this fella coz he'll have his way in no time at all.*

You should definitely book onto a tour from KJ and @alexchurchill.bsky.social if you like history, boats & shit-talking bout Henry 8.

*I have Paraphrased.

V straightforward ☺️ no traffic at all which is always a win

Lovely to meet you ☺️ thank you so much for coming!