I had the pleasure of collecting Harriet Harman MP Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and her Office Manager from the Milton Keynes Central Railway Station with Cllr Elaine Wales (who I picked up from her home in Loughton).
Harriet did ask what car it was (a Fiat Panda) and said she liked it and used the vanity mirror as I was driving!
I dropped them all off at the Whaddon Way shops and parked opposite in the new offices of West Bletchley Council, when I crossed over the road Catherine told me that she left her handbag in the car so we back to retrieve it.
In should of got Elaine to ring through to find out where everyone was and then drove everyone to the street where the campaign team were, as we walked for what seemed forever as Harriet and Elaine had a head start I was breathlessly talking to Catherine.
We found the team and Harriet knock on doors chatting to residents I spoke with Cllrs Norman Miles Hannah O'Neill Mohammed Khan Gladstone MacKenzie and Kevin Wilson.
One my other tasks was to take photographs as I was told that Rae Martin-Smith (Organiser) would be absent recovering from the Eastleigh by election, but disaster struck the camera was not charged, but as it turned out Rae was here after all!
I managed to catch up with Harriet who said to me how much she could hear the birds in the trees unlike where she lives in London we talked about memoirs and Ed Milliband and her Children who had fled the nest to go to University!
I was invited to go with Harriet, Catherine, Rae, Andrew Pakes and Emily Darlington to ASDA's at the Stadium MK for a photo opp with staff who had collected items from customers for the Foodbank. Somehow I managed to get lost I was driving on my own as everyone else went in Rae's car, and by the time I found a parking space and got into the ASDA store they were finished, but Emily asked me for a lift to Camilla Turnbull's house where everyone was going back to for sandwiches, she seemed very quiet on the way back, but as I was to learn afterwards she had a bad throat!
Later on we went outside for a group photograph and Harriet gave a rousing motivational speech about campaigning.
Everyone then departed to carry on campaigning, at Oxley Park, Kevin Wilson took Harriet and Catherine back to Milton Keynes Central, and before I left I handed back a large poster back to Rae as I took it from her at the Whaddon Way shops so she had more room in her car, I reminded Elaine that I also had her leaflets in the back of my car (as now she had borrowed her brothers car, which we went to another part of West Bletchley as I said I would help her deliver them.)
A very tiring but interesting day which I won't forget in a hurry!
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