Via Backword, The Telegraph‘s guide to candidates in key marginals. I don’t claim to know who all the people referenced are. I’ve got a pretty good idea who “Eccleston, C.” in Chippenham is though.

It’s one year since this blog’s first post, so here are some blogstats:

• 2: number of servers this site has been hosted on
• 2: number of blogging applications used
• 226: number of posts
• 444: number of comments
• 1.96: average number of comments per post
• 119: number of number plates spotted (playing since May 2004)
• 6,322: unique hits (counting since May 2004)

Top seven referring blogs:

• 7: Chewing My Keyboard
• 6: Recess Monkey
• 5: Liberal England
• 4: Adam Nazir Ahmed Teladia
• 3: What You Can Get Away With
• 2: Martyn Hencher (defunct)
• 1: Peter Black

Top ten search terms:

• 10: jerry
• 9: blog
• 8: springer
• 7: geek
• 6: island
• 5: katie
• 4: price
• 3: eurovision
• 2: will
• 1: howells

Despite that list, most of my hits at the moment are from searches for “David Tennant”.

Tony Blair has just returned from the palace and announced that a General Election will be held on Thursday 5th May.

The word “misnomer” springs to mind.

(Photo: BBC.)