Pattisue picked me up this morning and took me with her to the local Democrats breakfast Christmas party. It was quite a novelty going to a party at breakfast time, but everyone brought a dish and there was some very good food. And we started with a party game. Everyone was given the name on their back of a prominent Democrat, and the object of the game was to guess who it was, so the idea was to ask people for clues. Mine was Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson!!!!!! I would have got Elizabeth Warren - who briefly entertained hopes of running for President, but I think she has been told to leave the field clear for Hilary Clinton to be the first woman President - before I thought of Woodrow Wilson. I think the guy who stuck it on my back thought that I might know he was President in WW1 before knowing anyone modern.
Most people there, predictably, were elderly, but there was a lively young man from the Young Democrats, obviously passionate about politics and the Democrats. Although their politics were different he reminded me of the young William Hague, who first spoke at the Conservative Party Conference when he was 16, and his passion for politics was so evident I thought then he would go far. Twenty years later when he was 36 he became leader of the Conservative Party - the first leader who never became Prime Minister.
The rest of the day, the weekend in fact, is focused on getting ready to go down to Beaumont on Friday. I keep anxiously looking at the long range weather forecasts. It is Sunday morning now, have looked outside and the car it so totally iced up I decided I wasn't going anywhere soon.
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