Well this is my very first post on a blog. Will any one read it? My campaign team (I'll just call them C and D) thought that this would be something new to try for the just announced election for the Somerset County Council division of Mendip NE. And this is all due to the previous councillor being disqualified from office. So having expressed an interest in standing for the County Council elections in May 2009 all of a sudden I find myself going through a hastily convened approval panel and then branch selection and am now the candidate for an election due to be held in about 6 weeks time. So how do I feel - well I think the panic could well set in if I let it.



Yesterday was the first day of campaign pre-work. Out and around the division with a photographer to have plenty of election photos ready and then back in the Constituency office to go through the draft campaign timetable. I was allowed home on condition I got all the 10 signed names on the nomination paper by Tuesday next - and this over the Easter weekend when nearly everyone I want to see is away. Who is running this campaign? - i've just realised it's not me! (only joking C!) Home about four to meet my seven year old grandaughter who has come to tea with a friend. By the time she's gone home to Mum and Dad its nearly seven and then its on the PC to see what the campaign team have sent me. It's the first draft of the campaign literature for me to read, amend, approve This took until nearly midnight. And so to bed - only another 7 weeks to go - hope I last out!