Leafleting on Tattenhoe

I arrived as planned at Cllr Nigel Long's house on Shenley Road Bletchley at 10:45am and parked at the Three Trees Car Park nearby another car pulled up and the three most biggest bruisers got out of it (would not like to meet them in a dark alley.)

As I was invited in Nigel's two dogs were all over me very excitable and licking my hands, he has a lovely bungalow and it was the first time I had been inside as previously he lived in Kennet Drive.

We chatted about the polls and the Andrew Marr interview with Lord Peter Mandelson (which he was impressed by) and the health benefits of leafleting and the nightmare of getting in to flats to leaflet, he then took a call.

Cllr Kevin Wilson arrived with my leaflets for Tattenhoe which was in a bundle all trussed up he gave me a map of the roads that needed doing and said to leaflet Emerson Valley North with what was left over and to then let him know the names of the roads I had done, by this time it had started raining and Phillip Turnball and Cllr Gladstone McKenzie were already there in Nigel's driveway waiting to get going canvassing, Dr Phyllis Starkey MP arrived wearing a long red coat and I went on my way as I was driving along Shenley Road I spotted Kevin cigarette in mouth holding the register waiting for the troops with Phyllis running along now wearing a matching red hat and Nigel walking close by.

I parked up at the allotments and started walking to Rosemullien Drive to start my leafleting, one guy was standing in his driveway holding a lighter and a packet of cigarettes in one hand and juggling with the other hand a laptop which was not covered up in the rain he was very friendly asking me how I was (not had that before), another elderly lady doing some gardening was also pleasant and even though it was wet I quite enjoyed the nice atmosphere.

In one road I put a leaflet through a door and as I walked away from the property the door opened and this guy headed for the green compost wheelie bin opened the lid throw the leaflet in the bin and shut it down loudly and walked back in to his house with out a word to me.

Further up the court two boys were kicking a football against a garden wall one lad kicked it high in to the back garden as I walked past they both said hello which cheered me up.

I noticed as I was going from street to street the different stone ornaments in the front gardens like a cat about to pounce and even of a man sitting on a bench which made me look twice.

By the time I finished it was 12:30pm and my hands were black from the print off the leaflets and it stopped raining and the sun came out, and I was hungry and knackered and as I forgotton the demarcation of Emerson Valley North and South by the grid roads as explained by Kevin I decided that it would either be leafleted by me or someone else another time and with that I drove home.