A slight departure today from the usual pension stuff to do a bit of unashamed advertising for an extremely funny book!!

Anyone who might have been avid followers of Baby Barista in the Times before it hid behind its paywall, may be interested to know that advance copies of “Law and Disorder: Confessions of Pupil Barrister” have just arrived.

This is a new edition of “BabyBarista and the Art of War” which was described by broadcaster Jeremy Vine as “a wonderful, racing read – well-drawn, smartly plotted and laugh out loud” and by The Times as “a cross between The Talented Mr Ripley, Rumpole and Bridget Jones’s Diary”. It follow’s BabyBarista’s fight for tenancy during his first year in chambers. It is officially released on 2 August and can be pre-ordered at www.amazon.co.uk. Tim Kevan is a great writer and I will be reviewing this on here once I get my paws on a copy!! I am madly in love with ‘Old Ruin’ despite his great age – he is a man of wisdom and cuddlyness!

I have added a link to the Baby Barista blog and if there are any Guardianistas amongst my readership, you may know that BB is now regularly appearing there. The cartoons are provided by the wonderful Alex Williams, and If you want to get a daily fix of amusement at the expense of the ‘Senior Branch’ of the legal profession (as they like to think but we solicitors know better!!) then I can thoroughly recommend you go out and spend a very tiny proportion of your pension or erstwhile contributions thereto!! See I got pensions in there somewhere!!