I lay in the grass today looking up at the blue sky with my two girls 5 and 3 and we looked for cloud shapes. We found beagles on broomsticks, a huge horse and plenty of ducks.
I haven’t been able to blog since the elections on 3.5.07 as it was all too frustrating losing my seat by such a narrow margin (less than 5%) and on such peculiar grounds. I have lost track of the number of people who have said to me ‘I usually vote Green but I voted for you because you are effective and are pushing the sustainability agenda’… and I am left wondering how many disillusioned Tory voters who we didn’t speak to (‘not really impressed by Cameron’ and those put out by the new fortnightly waste recycling collection – the bins for which did indeed arrive in many roads on election day!) may have actually therefore voted the Green party councillors in. Democracy is a strange process indeed.
So I have been dealing with my feelings of personal frustration, getting involved in other things and in many ways I have surprisingly found it liberating as there is a little more time now in my life and I have a new perspective. I hope it is in some way character building and I am appreciative of the view I have of the democratic workings from my experience of it.
Those clouds keep rolling and I can enjoy spotting the animals – a precious time. I shall aim to blog from time to time as I am of course still hugely interested in what happens locally and how we leave our environment and world for our children but it will be from a different perspective and with a different, and non Wealden responsible, hat. Every cloud does indeed have a silver lining.
