Apologies for the light blogging of late, but life has been rather hectic over the past seven days.
Yesterday evening, after driving back from London, I attended the annual dinner of the North Wales CBI at the St David’s Park hotel, Ewloe. There were a number of extremely good speeches, including one by my friend Jeremy Salisbury, the CBI’s current chairman, who gave a summary of what the organisation was looking to the new Government to do for business. On the whole, he gave the coalition a reasonably warm welcome.
The principal speaker was the Welsh First Minister, Carwyn Jones, who delivered a good speech, including an entertaining account of his experiences canvassing in South Wales during the general election campaign.
I was particularly amused when he related a story of knocking on the door of a house in Bridgend to be greeted by a lady who said she was absolutely delighted to see him, because she watched him on television every night.
“Every night?” enquired Carwyn, perplexed. “I’m on TV quite a bit, but not that often.”
“Oh, aren’t you the BBC Wales weatherman?” asked the lady, clearly very disappointed.
I was pleased to learn that I am not the only one to have noted the resemblance.
