It’s amazing how fast the year comes around again.  Mike came out to canvass with us tonight, it’s almost as though the last year never happened and we’ve turned back the clock.  We knocked on doors again – and after many years, so many residents are well known to us all.  It’s really odd when you are walking to a door and you remember the conversation you had with the family, last year ……you also remember the residents who don’t agree with you ….  you pause before you ring the doorbell for a repeat ….. 

At work I have my enthusiasm for my job and get on with my classes, as its too easy to focus on election work alone.  My long-suffering head of department has just had to endure one of my lessons, for my annual lesson ‘observation’ (poor man) and I am spending hours ‘feeding back’ to students, about coursework that (still) needs changing before we post samples of their work to the exam board next week.  Work provides a rest from pounding the streets and pushing our Lib Dem message through letterboxes and personal exchange.   Election time is a strange beast few understand unless they too, are involved.