צֶדֶק צֶדֶק תִּרְדֹּף: Old Bailey trip report

A while ago, I posted about the lawyer flatmate I once had who recommended I visit a law court at some time and see how justice is carried out. So in late October curious_reader and I paid a visit to the Old Bailey (or, technically, the Central Criminal Court—like Bevis Marks synagogue, the building is better known by the name of the street where it is found).

( Read report on the Old Bailey itself and the murder case we attended )

Sekrit Project, post 1

Spent today working on a Sekrit Project I've been meaning to do for months, but which I'd now like to get (started and) finished in time for the Wandering Jews I'm hosting this Shabbos. (You'll know if I succeed from whether I post a picture of the completed thing!)

Gosh, it's been decades since I've had to draw something with perspective, necessitating me to work out vanishing points (and then put my pencil down in them so many times I'll be lucky to manage to erase my construction lines).

I've just spent the last half hour googling decorative borders, trying to find something which appeals to me and is complex, yet simple enough I can do in an evening. I may go for something from Islamic calligraphy. Taking a decorative border from Islamic art for something Jewish isn't, I feel, as bad as wanting to hang sajadas in a synagogue, but I feel a bit ambivalent about it. The problem is that I can't find anything else, and Islamic art decorations are cool. ETA: I've just had a better idea!