The Dawn Chorus

I am not good at early mornings so it was a shock to the system today to rise from my bed before 5:30 am. The reason for the early start was that I was in London for today's press conference and some sado-masochist in the party has decided that 6:30am general press briefings are the thing - followed by a smaller 7am briefing on the topic of the day (while we eat bacon butties and the make up artist tries to make us look human) and the conference itself follows at 7:30.

Today we also had the unveiling of the latest poster van - on free personal care for the elderly