Tuesday 2 March: Outdoors with the sun shining.

I'm out in the morning, attending a coffee morning at an old people's home. This is very good especially the stories of ong ago Liberal councillors.

After this a brief visit to the hospital for a quick meeting.

In the afternoon a biggish group depart to talk to residents. We get an excellent response - very good indeed. But we are in an area where I would expect us to get a very good response, so it not reasonable to read too much into it.

Early evening I get some jobs and correspondence out of the way. After this I walk down to Leigh Folk Club. There is a good crowd there to listen to Ruth Notman - with a few Liberal democrats among them. There's a surprise...