Well here I am on a Sunday morning when I should be out delivering. But I'm taking the time out to reorganise the boot in my car which has been used as a dumping ground during the week for all sorts of canvassing paraphernalia - and anyway - I just want a rest!
So how has the week gone. Apart from the day job in the hospital which is always busy it's been busy,busy,busy - so no surprise there! Out every night all over the patch - Mells, Faulkland, Rode, Coleford and then Rode again canvassing on successive nights - and then out Friday morning and all day Saturday delivering - interspersed with going into the campaign office to agree the content for new leaflets, and have more photos taken as they've used all the last lot. Oh and also write a report on the housing component of a prospective development in my home village and present it to a village meeting.
In my spare time (ha ha) I've also managed to get my car repaired in Bristol, watch my granddaughter at her weekly swimming lesson, go to Modern Jive and a Pilates class (good for my bad back!), and out for dinner with some neighbours on Friday evening. It was good to catch up with all their news.
But I guess the big surprise was a telephone call from our youngest son about 10 o'clock Thursday morning. He was in a hotel in Las Vegas (2am in the morning there) bringing me up to date on the final part of a 2mth holiday he's having with his wife. Which reminds me of a discussion I had with him in London recently about his job. He's a Police Sergeant in the Met in one of the inner London Boroughs and he was telling me about how he works in close co-operation with the Councillors in his area as part of his responsibility for Community Policing. He has some good ideas which I would like to try out if I'm elected . Whether the ideas that work in central London can be applied in rural Somerset remains to be seen.
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