A number of people have asked me when the next caption competition is being held. They include someone who enjoys the competition even though never offering a caption. So, by popular demand, here’s the February competition. The winner will be whoever provides what in my opinion is the wittiest caption for this photograph. The prize will be a copy of either Eminent Parliamentarians or The Voice of the Backbenchers.
February caption competition
The Norton View 
[David Attenborough voice-over] “And here we find a prime example of the political academic, content in his native habitat, surrounded as he is in his nest of books and journals. This home has been painstakingly built up over a period of many years, and he must be careful that his enthusiasm for expansion doesn’t lead to a devastating literature landslide that would trap him inside permanently…”
A Health & Safety letter finally confirmed the inevitable: a fire exit in Lord Norton’s office was clearly a ludicrous idea.
Lord Norton : ” Why on earth would I need a kindle? I would never be able to find it ! “
Studies from the University of Hull have shown that academics that build a fort out of their own publications, reduce their chances of being interrupted outside office hours by up 64%.
Books kindle knowledge
You want to borrow “50 Shades of Grey”? If you can find it, you can keep it.
sorry we dont have flyfishing by JR hartley
They say Lord Norton built his fort out of the most impenetrable material he could find…
Latest flooding crisis: “I had to move everything off the floor” says Hull academic as he sits at desk in wellies.
Hull of a lot of books
Guide books to the English parliamentary sovereignty.
Paperless office they said….
Hull’s answer to the Hampton Court Maze
That’s the way the money comes, Pop! goes the weasel
The little observed but fiercely competitive House of Lords snowball fight last all day and continues throughout the palace. The outdoor committee of team Tory prepares the orbs and the interior committee hides the standards and undertakes defensive preparations.Lord Norton digs in days in advance.
I once was lost but now I’m found………….
Give it 6 months and I’ll have an igloo…
Above the clouds, below the pen; political academia requires purveyance of deductive capacity, using a narrowing of mental faculties to sophisticated assessment of visual and audio stimulation of the physical manifestation as material presence to produce a calculated summarisation in a short but effectively used space of time in the reduced but functional piercings of the subtle facts within an overarching mystery of spontaneous activity as a careful reader or gifted lecturer.
Lord Norton disappears down Westminster’s bibliophilic sink hole
It was Lord Norton, in the Library, with the hole punch
“These are the books due to be returned to the Hull library or the House of Lords library this week. The ones I own are in the adjoining room.”:
“They asked me for a comprehensive view on the follies of political machinations within the British parilmentary system, I’m proud to announce after a herculean effort the completion of chapter one.”
“Books are my forte”, said Lord Norton. He paused, then continued “fort, anyway”.
“Books are my fort”, said Lord Norton in a Freudian slip. He corrected himself “forte, anyway”.
“The University asked to see a small sample of what I published last year…”
There were so many amazingly good entries that Lord Norton decided all were winners.
tizres: Very close to being true!
Head and shoulders above the books
The next student who says Britain doesn’t have a written constitution might find it landing on top of them !
That’s the walls built, now the roof, if only there was a Thatcher at Westminster.
It’s really a result of growing-up in the swinging sixties. The permissive society hadn’t quite arrived in Louth, so I went for the only addiction that was available.
My favourite? Probably “My Bookywook” by Russell Brand…
Lord Norton was more than happy to get involved with the Library’s new outsourcing scheme, especially with the new “ease of access” system in finding books against House of Lords Reform.
Why do I have two computers in my office? Well, of course, the main one is for my e-book library. One finds it’s much more convenient on the Hull to London train to have one’s library in an electronic format. So my books and I are never parted.