I was delighted to be able to help out the Liberal Democrat candidate in Heworth Without ward in York yesterday afternoon. This is a seat the Lib Dems lost to the Conservatives by just 34 votes in May so with a by-election now pending the local party is taking it very seriously indeed. The snag with volunteering yesterday was the heat. Although I have delivered leaflets all around the country over nearly 20 years, I have never done so in such heat. The temperature when we finished was 32º Celsius! Pretty remarkable for Yorkshire. This heat, of course, is in stark contrast to the weather we have been having recently. I wonder if in future we will look back on 2007 as the year climate change really made its mark.
Anyway, good luck to Nigel and his team in York. I hope to be back there before polling day on September 6th – I just wonder what the weather might have in store for me. Snow?
