Forgive me reader for I have sinned, it’s been days since my last posting.

So, a quick summary.

Weekend – long drive with a carful of local party activists to Regional Conference in Gainsborough.  A good time seems to be had by all.

Monday, a day in the Council House.  Turn up at 10am for a very bad-tempered meeting.  Check diary and see next meeting is at 2pm.  Not really worth going home and coming back, so I find things to read, and get on with other bits of work.  Then at 1359, someone looks over my shoulder and says “Hang on a minute, that meeting is Thursday.”  Bugger.  I can’t go on Thursday.  The meeting has been moved because of a diary clash for the chair, and I didn’t update my own diary. Then my next meeting is group at 7.30pm.  So I hang around for that too, nattering to colleagues and setting the world to rights.  Finally leave the building twelve hours later when Group finishes, as it always does, with the Council House staff coming around the building to chuck us out so he can go home.

Late at night, discuss recipes with UMRAT friend, who suggests a main course for…

Tuesday, delivery day, and having veggie friends round for tea.  Most of our veggie friends in one go, for convenience.  We had soup, cheese pudding and apple tart, supplemented by extra puds from M&S and rather too much wine.

After the wine, one of our guests made the startling discovery that if you back-comb Fudge’s mane, he looks like Ming the Merciless.