On Friday we went to see again Avenue Q - a great and curiously addictive musical which is quite different to your usual London musical! It rounds off a spring when I have for the first time in a very long time made the most of living in London to enjoy what’s available - other trips have included the Mousetrap (which I’d never seen before), La Boheme (again for the first time, at the ENO), the Gondoliers, the Marriage of Figaro, the very weird and depressing The Lighting Play at the Almeida theatre, Boeing Boeing, a great concert at the Barbican, and the really excellent and thought-provoking Frost/Nixon - and finally a very lively amateur performance of Anything Goes! in Cambridge.

I have been really enjoying the summery weather we’ve been having in London this week. This afternoon in my office - which people refused to come to meetings in over the winter because it was so cold - I even opened the window! S’amazing how some good weather can lift the soul!

I’ve finally taken the plunge, and decided to try out becoming a blogger. I’ve always thought it sounded like something I’d like to give a try, but not been quite sure whether I have the self-discipline to say something reasonably regularly, as well as not being quite sure whether anyone else would really be interested in what I do have to say (and also whether I can stop myself from saying things that I might regret afterwards”¦). So this is something of a test to try and find out the answers to these questions - so please do see this as a blog which is still ”˜in beta’ (as I understand those computer chaps say) - it might not work and so disappear, but if it works I might change and do it a bit more properly.

Credit belongs to Justine McGuinness for giving me a final shove to do this, and also to my blogging paragon, Jon Worth. One of the many things I think that he gets right about his blog is that he keeps all his entries short, and that’s something I hope to emulate.

If you would like to know more about me, there is some information here about some of the things that I do and have done.

While we’re here, other blogs I sometimes look at include:

Lib Dem Voice (though I think it’s a bit doubtful whether it’s really a blog) - I do check it pretty regularly, and I think it benefits from being written by several people
Andy Mayer
Daniela Grech
Jan Seifert
Lib Dem Blogs (an aggregation of them)
Richard Laming