Hello and welcome to the LFBB December Newsletter, the most festive newsletter of them all! We want to start by wishing our clients of Christmas past, present and future an excellent festive season. After a real struggle getting the lights on our office Christmas tree to work (taking just over an hour and requiring, at one point, 4 people), we are now officially Yuletide ready.

Author’s Note: I’m already concerned I’ll be using the word “Christmas” way too much, so I’ll be throwing in some choice alternatives, #seasonalsynonyms.

LFBBs answer to Kris Kringle, the one and only Ian Clay, has written a memoir, “It Was Forty Years Ago Today”. So as a seasonal treat, here’s a sneak peak:

IT WAS FORTY YEARS AGO TODAY

And to prove it, here is the book.

An affectionate and amusing look back at the early 1980s through the prism of life as a first-year student at Britain’s smallest university. These memoirs reveal the shocki

ng lack of mobile phones, internet and social media, through which we not only survived but thrived. 

Leaving Sheffield to go to Lampeter was just about the biggest culture shock legally permitted to expose an 18-year-old to and proved to be close to perfect as Saint Davids University College provided an education in life with a degree thrown in. 

Life became about more than just cider, Monty Python and cricket, but only just.

What happened next, you may well ask…

If you’d like to read more, specifically the whole book, you can purchase your very own copy here: www.amazon.co.uk/Was-Forty-Years-Ago-Today/dp/B0DPR2YXZZ

As has become an LFBB merry time tradition, Ian has put together another article on some laws that are strange yet seasonal and indeed, fun and festive. So whether you’re 5 glasses of eggnog deep or just about to settle down and watch The Muppet Christmas Carol (good choice!), take a quick look under your tree, because there’s an early Christmas present. It’s time to sit back, relax, and unwrap the gift of legal news and updates from our corner of Paradise square!

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