Apologies for the silence on the blogging front over the last few days. It’s been a manically busy period, with wall-to-wall select committees, as well as heavy constituency business.
Got home last night after midnight after winding up on a statutory instrument taken on the floor of the House. I tweeted that I had just done a 16 hour day and received a tweet in response telling me that I should feel lucky that I was not a serving soldier in Afghanistan. I think it came from a soldier’s wife. She was entirely right and I tweeted back saying so, feeling a little guilty.
Trawling through the blogs, I was surprised to see myself criticised by a Welsh language blogger for reading the Times, on the grounds that “there is almost never anything of interest in it”.
Sometimes you feel you just can’t win. I sent out a tweet saying as much and was amazed and amused to receive a reply (by now it was 1.00 a.m.) reading:
Wow.. what a criticism of an MP.. to read the Times. Sometimes I think the current Govn’t get their inspiration from the Beano.
What a strange world we inhabit.
If I had just completed a 16 hour day the last thing I would want to do it tweet or whatever it’s called!
Perhaps the criticism lay in the tabloid format …