The leadership election has spawned lots of new blogs, which is to be welcomed, and I hope these new bloggers keep it up once the election is over.

I discovered three blogs (either new, or new to me) over the weekend which seemed to be from that large intersection between LibDems and Doctor Who fans. Alex Wilcock and Aidan Brack both fit the bill. I have no idea if Andrew Hinton is a fan, but it would be interesting to know how he came upon his URL if he isn’t…

I managed to get up to Inverkeithing on Saturday to deliver some leaflets for the Dunfermline and West Fife by-election. It was my first time travelling over the Forth Bridge. There was so much mist over the Forth that all you could see on either site was whiteness and the Forth Road Bridge rising up through it on the left – it felt like the train was travelling through the clouds. Several people in my carriage whipped out their cameraphones.

The HQ was very busy and I ran into people I knew as soon as I arrived. The areas I delivered – on my own, on foot – were particularly nice, and only a little hilly. Although there were some houses with steps to the front doors, the driveways weren’t too long, there weren’t any entryphone flats, and the letterboxes were not, for a change, troublesome. I noticed that none of the houses had window posters for any of the candidates. I did my good deed for the day (if you don’t count delivery) by knocking on one door to alert the owner that his car lights were on. See, LibDems are nice.

There were various councillors and parliamentarians around the HQ. One MP had spotted a headline in a Tory leaflet – “Dignity for Older People” – and quipped: “Isn’t that the new name for the Voluntary Euthanasia Society“?

After a meeting, I headed to a pub quiz fundraiser organised by Edinburgh West LibDems. Excellent fun. My timeteam came second thanks to particular success on film quotes and celebrities (the shame), and I also won, for a change, on the raffle.

If you can, please head along and help Willie Rennie win the by-election – polling day is tomorrow!

For the answer to this and other teasers, listen to Guido and the Monkey’s interview with him.

From the Press Association:

Ms Kelly was hit over the head with an egg as she left Salford Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
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[Downes] will appear again at Trafford Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, February 14, charged with one charge of common assault with beating.