Local elections yesterday - nice day, sunny, sat in garden contemplating getting the angle grinder to the gas bottle, decided not to spoil the peace...
Door bell goes - I look over the gate - Green Party canvaser. Have a fairly good chat - he'd read the stuff on the 'About Grumble' stuck in the window and was interested in why I'd converted it to LPG (bit of a no-brainer really). He seemed to forget he was s'posed to be canvasing and we were have a fairly good chat about all sorts.
While we were talking the Lib Dems came down. One, a middle aged woman commented to her equally middle aged colleage about the 'gas guzzling jeeps'.
Green Party bloke corrected her, "They're Land Rovers" he retorted, "and they run of environmentally friendlier gas"! It was a strange moment, terminated only by another LibDem rushing up and hurrying them away - same chap who I made clear the street last year after I saw them drop a couple of their leaflets and not pick them up - I was interested to see they were still using their 'kin huge 'people carrier'.
Green Party bloke carries on chatting, saying that although they don't expect to get elected, they still think it's worth having a go and trying to raise the profile of green issues. One thing he said which really took me by surprise was that they thought the anti 4x4 movement were causing more harm than good. He reckoned that building bridges was more important than pointing fingers. Well, he certainly built a few here.