Do you like absorbing the politically banale? I do

Maybe this is for a rare hybrid of a person who a) has an unhealthier than perhaps is normal interest in politics (I'm thinking geek more than activist here) and b) a longing for the return to good old voyeuristic banale reality television as it was before producers started engineering conflict at every turn.

Eyespymp is billed as the successor to an anonymous Whitehall tweeter (executive paralysis does wonders for civil service creativity I'm sure) who was game was blown by James Kirkup in the Telegraph a little while ago.

I feel like I shouldn't enjoy it, but I do. I wonder if they had a Greenwich version what they would see? "Easton walks across road for bacon sarnie before returning to move some more paper around the Museum". Still can't be any less surprising than the thought of Eric Pickles munching doughnuts in the lift...

Well done Charlton :-)

Now don't get me wrong - I will happily admit to knowing very little about association football (I'm more of an RFU man), but since I happened to be down in Charlton delivering leaflets earlier this evening (Peninsula's boundaries stretch along the railway down past the flyover beyond Anchor and Hope Lane. Even though it's a different post code and I'm not permitted to park there, apparently I'm still allowed to put myself forward to represent there! The joys of ward boundaries.. but I digress) I had a chance to see the fans making their way to the game.

It's a warming sight, and one that takes me back to the odd occasions when I went to watch Norwich play at Carrow Road (back in the period when we were falling fast out of what was then the Barclays Premiership, we nearly always lost :-( ) - seeing groups of friends and families getting together to share a common cause.

I'm going to end this before I get accused of being oversentimental, but mainly I just wanted to say well done to Charlton on their win. :-)