HOURS OF WALKING AHEAD

I picked up my election leaflets from the printers yesterday lunchtime.  Now comes the task of getting them to every letterbox in the election ward. As with my previous County Council campaign, I've allocated every road to a particular "Round" and for this election there are thirteen rounds.  I hope that's not an unlucky number - better make the last one 12A!  The great news is that this District Ward is roughly half the size of the County Division so delivering the leaflets should be a lot easier this time round.  I fact last time, it took virtually all my time just to get the leaflets delivered, leaving little time to actually knock on doors.  For this election I should have time to both do the leafleting and the canvassing within a three week period.

So with 22 days to go, I've got my rounds organised and I've got a timetable planned to cover both leafleting and canvassing.  The leaflets are all now batched up into their rounds ready to go:-

It is readily apparent from the photo that not all rounds are equal.  I hope that doesn't offend any socialists reading this!

At some stage during the campaign my local MP is scheduled to come out to canvas with me.  He's actually returning a favour, as I did a lot of legwork for him locally in the General Election 2010.  But notwithstanding that, I'm really very chuffed that he's prepared to help me - and bring others along with him.  I'm keeping the date 'secret' for now but intend to have pictures for the blog in due course, after the event.

So anyway, I must stop blogging now and get out pounding those pavements.

(Here's the front cover, being one eighth of the total leaflet, showing also my running mate, Linda)