Leafleting at Great Linford

Saturday 27th March 2010 - Arrived at the Great Linford Local Centre car park nice to see a good team out and two new team members one from Blakelands and Willen.
Andrew Pakes promoted me to the dizzy heights as the team leader as we split in to two teams of three as he said I was organised enough to have brought my own holdall to put direct mails in and supplied me with a google map.
Andrew laid the piles of direct mails in street order on the tarmac so that I could pick them up and put them in order in to my holdall.
The direct mails were aimed at Labour voters who did not have postal votes.
We then went our separate ways and my team started on a section of 1970's former MKDC housing which was like a warren with a very complicated numbering system I split the round amongst the three of us and could not find a section of house numbers and walked round and round getting frustrated, until a kind postman in his van pulled the window down and asked if he could help me and pointed me in the right direction when I showed him the house numbers I was after.
He informed me that there were a number of properties that were along an alleyway with the front doors very much hidden, as I was delivering I noticed he was starting to follow me as he too was trying to find a property that he had to deliver a parcel to, he told me the number and I was sure it was across the road and was at the end of a terrace as I noticed it when I was previously lost, he did not believe me until a resident opened the door and said she was waiting for a parcel to be delivered and confirmed her door number, he turned round and said you were right, so in the end we both helped each other!
The team sheltered for a while under some streets as it started to rain heavily and indeed it rained on and off for the whole time we were delivering.
I also discovered that two members of the team once went to the same school and lived in the same street in Luton and not spoken to each in over twenty years.
After delivering to a couple of other streets there was a few to deliver in a close which I offered to do and gave a pile of leaflets to the rest of the team for the next couple of streets, I said I would catch up with them once I had finished there.
I did come across one member of the team and so we went together to leaflet another close, a young lad dressed in a suit and using his clip board as an umbrella said there are two guys looking for someone and wondered if it was for me, he then asked if I was knocking on doors selling something I said no I was leafleting for the Labour Party, he replied Fucking hell you probably upset the people I am about to knock on the doors of, I replied that there was no need to react like that and he asked my colleague about who he had spoken to on the doorsteps he clearly did not listen to what I had said to him.
We eventually caught up with other and walked back to the car park in the rain, Andrew told us that David Cameron (leader of the Conservative Party) would have arrived by now at the Milton Keynes Academy and how ironic the rain had started and how the sun shines on Labour.
We all said our good byes and I drove off to go to the Centre MK to go shopping and meet with my friend Paula Lewis.