Obiter's call for information about solicitors who carry on other careers while working at the legal grindstone - prompted by Dr Robert Tobin, who works as both a lawyer and a dentist - failed to produce much of a response, it has to be said. Except from mosaicists. Last month we profiled Patricia Witts, who gained a PhD for her thesis on Romano-British mosaics while working full-time as a solicitor for the Solicitors Indemnity Fund (see [2006] Gazette, 25 May, 9). This prompted Marcus Thorpe, a solicitor in the tax, trusts and probate department in Ashfords' Exeter office, to get in touch. He was a mosaicist for five years prior to re-training as a lawyer and his commissions included this Ayrshire cow, worked in marble and granite.