Wednesday, May 19

BoS editor Chris Gill receives a letter at home. The envelope is handwritten and there is no postcode.

It is from Cople Argus cricket club and begins ‘Dear Honorary Life Member…’ Gill is a big cricket fan and is living for the day Lancashire win a county championship.

But he is bemused by this and more so when he finds a C Gill listed in the club’s handbook.

It’s all a mistake or course, and it should in fact have gone to a Colin Gill. Relief all round, at least it’s not another Chris… OHHH, those press people can be a real pain… literally.

There is a media scrum outside Bedford Magistrates’ Court and when the person who is of interest appears it is a bit of a shock to him – so much so in his haste to avoid the pack he walks nuts first straight into a bollard.

Ouch, bet that hurt.

ONE of our staff is clearly in favour with easyJet who have sent him a temporary easyJet plus card allowing speedy boarding on to the company’s planes.

Pity is, he doesn’t know when he will get to use it.

A few days earlier he had received an email from them to say that his flight for a weekend break next month had been cancelled.

I THINK I have had my first senior moment. Waiting for young Miss Ball to get ready for school (even girls of seven can never get ready on time), I decide to save myself time and money and make some sandwiches for lunch.

Only when sitting behind my desk opening all my emails do I remember I am out to lunch.

Anyone fancy a few homemade ham, tomato and mustard sandwiches? ANYONE fancy being leader of the Labour Party? I only ask because they seem to be running out of MPs for candidates and will soon need to look outside Westminster if they want to braden the field yet further.

If asked, I would happily stand, and with a wife and three kids, am well used to the politics of compromise.