As alluded to earlier, I was in London at the weekend. Long train journey down and a long train journey back.

Delivered hundreds and hundreds of leaflets, visited Blackheath (right) and had a great time at a quiz night run by Lewisham LibDems. The weather was “changeable” – sunny one minute, spitting with rain the next. Sadly it was raining a little which stopped me taking a photo with my phone of a van I saw covered with grocers apostrophe’s: it was advertising work on “Lock’s, door’s, kitchen’s” etc.

On Sunday afternoon, while finishing a delivery round, I got caught in such a torrential downpour that I got completely soaked through. I don’t think I’ve ever been so wet – not fully clothed anyway. With no spare trousers or shoes – and my trainers in particular were drenched – I decided to spend an extra night in London to let my things dry out, as preferable to spending 8 hours travelling in dampness. Monday was a write-off, then, with most of the day spent on a crammed service north.

Despite consuming a fair amount of alcohol over the weekend, I did feel virtuous from all the leafleting and walking, so, as it’s a bank holiday in Edinburgh on Monday, I’m flying back down to the smoke tomorrow to dispense more leaflets.

Roll up! Roll up! British identity for sale! Get ’em while they’re hot!

I am selling/leasing my British identity to the highest bidder. Unfortunately, the buyer will only own it for a limited period of time (probably will expire sometime after 2008) as the UK government will be nationalising it at that point and placing all details of the said identity onto a national database, for which privilege the owner will have to pay an exhorbitant fee.

Half of all proceeds from the sale will go to www.No2ID.net, the remainder will be used to get a new identity

Best before 2008.

(You can use eBay’s “Watch this item” functionality to see how much it goes for.)

Reuters: Man held as terrorism suspect over punk song:

The taxi driver had become worried on the way to the airport because Mann had been singing along to The Clash’s 1979 anthem “London Calling,” which features the lyrics “Now war is declared — and battle come down” while other lines warn of a “meltdown expected.”

In other news, Sir Tom Jones has been shot in the head by police who suspected him of carrying a “Sex Bomb”. The IPCC labelled it a run-of-the-mill killing, saying, “It’s not unusual.” (Via.)

Update: I see from my sidebar (at the time of writing) that London Calling was one of the last four songs I listened to. Man the barricades!

An arbitrary poll reported by ITV News reveals:

Conservative party leader Cameron topped the Worst Dressed list, but also made fifth place in the Best Dressed one.

It’s the open shirt thing, isn’t it? (Via.)