Thur, May 6th

Election Day in the UK and I am pleased to say that for the first time since my wedding day in 1997 I was able to vote in a general election. I was in the US in 2002 and 2005 when Labour were returned to power.

When we got home from work I walked down to the electoral polling station, which was our local community center, and wrote an "X" on my ballot paper and placed it in the metal black box and returned home to do dinner. Again this evening I stayed up late (because of the pain in my leg) and watched the election results unfold. It was clear pretty soon that the expected hung parliament was on the cards. When I eventually made it to bed both Labour and Conservatives had 84 seats each with the target of 326 a long way off.