Richard Lennox

It is election time where I am. Both local council and Scottish Parliament.  This in itself is good news.  Sometimes I feel that it is the only occasion at which I can effectively hold politicians to account.

However I have a huge issue with this period.  Today through the letter box came a total of 24 pieces of electioneering spam, yes 24.  Most of which went straight into the bag for recycling. At least it was all delivered at the same time and by the postman, so there wasn't a steady stream of people wading through the block of flats.

I was trying to figure this out if there are 24 pieces of paper of varying quality at an average weight of 2 grams (a good estimate, I think), there are 16 flats in the block, and it is number 16 and the last one in the street, and they are all the same style, so that leaves me with 12.29 kilograms of electioneering spam in my street alone, imagine that across the thousands of homes in Edinburgh and we are talking an awful lot of Spam, and I hate spam.

Can anyone tell me how many trees this campaign will have cost? So much for politicians running a "Green Campaign".  And the irony is, this is the third time I have had the exact same leaflet through the door from the Green Party candidate!

As I have been getting away form normal in home entertainment and into a web based entertainment lifestyle.  This is basically ditching the rubbish on the box in the corner of the living room and playing about with what I can find on the Internet.  I have been reading many different blogs.  I never really bothered about who else was blogging in the world [wide web], but recently have been getting into it.  It is fun reading the true stories of other people, who may just have had a worse day than myself.

There are many kinds of blogs that I visit regularly.  I don't know why I find them all interesting, may be it is a snapshot of real life, that gets me intrigued.  For the most part though I think it is because they are just regular people, writing about regular things.  Though it must be said some are just for the pictures!  I don't necessarily know any of them but find them interesting none the less. 

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