He'd have all-night sittings, which meant he'd miss a whole night's sleep once a month. |
Blanch was his stand-in model between sittings with his portrait subjects, including the queen. |
He became increasingly eccentric, bursting into song or verse during parliamentary sittings and falling asleep at public meetings. |
The past couple of weeks have seen the final fortnight of Parliament sittings for the year. |
During last year's preliminary hearings, he failed to appear at two court sittings because he was allegedly medically unfit to attend. |
A lot of advanced democracies still have all-night sittings, which I think are crazy. |