Thursday, April 2/2015

Room 23 for the first three nights. We arrived close to one but Nick had waited up and doesn't seem at all put out. The room has its charms, especially the ceiling light fixture, and it's actually a little bigger than our usual. It's two longish flights up (old high ceilinged storeys) but the suitcases are now up. But we'll probably opt for our ground floor usual with its well known pros and cons.

The much anticipated election debate with seven candidates, including the obvious Cameron and Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage, as well as SNP's Nicola Sturgeon and the women leading the Green and Welsh Nationalist parties. We're expecting seven candidates to make for a pretty confused presentation but it's better than predicted. Sturgeon is particularly impressive and the Plaid Cymru leader wins rare applause by telling Farage he should be ashamed of expressing such unpleasant views of immigrants. All of the men look slightly as if they're aware of having more to lose than gain, except for Clegg, who probably genuinely has spent all his political capital. Two hours goes quite quickly though.