Budding Barrister Appreciator Gifts

"Remember to round each billable hour off to the nearest week."

'I love your playing....especially when you stop!'

'How's everyone doing tonight - that is the question.'

"After I graduate middle school, high school and college, I'll go to law school to get you out of this. But I want my retainer now."

"... And his piano teacher says that he definitely has Van Gough's ear for music."

'This is your spinal column...It's a bunch of bones that runs up and down your back and keeps your legs from going all the way up to your neck.'

The wrecking crew!

Building Blocks.

Mum has a bad judgement day - Well OK, you can take it to your room as long as you play it quietly.

"Dad, this is Wendy, she's going to re-negotiate my allowance!"

'There! Now you won't get tangles!'

3 cents glass - Exact change please, seller can't count.

'What's the fist thing you're going to think of when your brain is fully formed?'

'I'm not sure if he plays that loud because he has a good set of lungs or if it's a mean streak in him.'

'Talk about stuck-up! -- he has Masterpiece Theatre action figures!'

"In view of the new evidence, my client would like to change his plea to 'guilty-ish', M'Lud."

"You'd like a book by Shakespeare? Certainly sir - which one. . .?"

A child busking

'I must be getting good, because my Dad told me to go play for the neighbours!'

"I've got news for you. Kids don't have a union and doing your homework is not negotiable."

Oil Spill in the Bath.

'We never should have brought him that little lawyer kit. Suddenly, everything I ask him to do is capricious and arbitrary.'

A Born Politician

"You don't mind us shadowing you, do you?"

'Finishing law school was easy compared to finding an office.'

"He's so inquisitive! I wonder what he'll be when he grows up..."

'...when all at once I saw a bunch, a bunch of golden daffodils...no, it still doesn't sound right.'

No, cruel nature, WHY?

'I take it, you're just starting out.'