Yes, I felt the tremor up here. I knew what it was because it felt the same as the one 20+ years ago (epicentre in Wales) when I was still in Oxford. We have also had severe gales this week, with a roof blown off from Durham University, though thankfully no damage this time to our house. Back in the winter of 98/99 we had to make a biggish claim due to storm damage then, erm, switched to a different insurance company when they loaded us. I suppose you’re not in a position to do that nowadays, though.

I’ve been a bit busy with other stuff in my life to go to the other place; I’ll probably stick to here and Iain Dale’s site, meanwhile.

Hey, came across Ed’s blog on Joseph from a couple of years ago:

http://edvaizey.mpblogs.com/2006/09/24/baby-vaizey/

It would be a real bummer to be born on the 29th Feb - a fiver on the name Frederic, if so!!

I’m okay, thanks for asking. We’ve been in our rented house for about 3 weeks now, and it’s feeling more homely. We got a letter from our insurance co yesterday saying that our contents and buildings insurance is due for renewal in April, and they’re putting a 50% loading on the premium I guess I should be grateful that they’ll still insure us, but it’s a bit of a sting in the tail as the stream has never flooded before and probably (hopefully) never will again! Thankfully we didn’t have to make another claim after the earthquake, though the earth definitely moved for me as I was lying in bed

Don’t mention my kids - they are driving me to distraction with their constant bickering and moods. They’ve both had birthdays, my eldest is now 13 and his sister is now 12 - I wish they were still babies, like Ed’s, those were the happiest times of my life, now it’s a constant battleground - Ed, take heed LOL

How are you doing Tizzy? How’s the other place? I don’t go there anymore as I have to use a different browser to make it work But I’ve re-discovered my local library and am getting through loads of good books instead of spending hours on line like I used too!

I hope Ed’ll tell us how things are going - I want all the details, dob, name, weight etc etc

How’s thing’s with you, Sue? Have your kids been sorted out?

Actually, I can vote in the Primaries and the US elections becasue I am a dual national. There are many Democrats Abroad based in the UK.

When are going to come clean about your dodgy prediction of a Clinton/Romney campaign?

Politicians should listen to what the people are telling them…
We’ve been telling you for ages that Obama is going to be the next US President!

It’s going to be Obama/McCain. McCain will never win because he works on the basis of ‘fear and revenge’. He wants to be in Iraq for perhaps the next 100 years? John McCain offers nothing more than a third term of George Bush’s policies. More fear-mongering etc etc. McCain stands no chance. He is far too old and all he does is talk about the past. What about the future?

It’s Barack Obama all the way. The writing is on the wall.

Go Obama.