Curiouser and curiouser

Five surgeries today and I picked up some incredible cases and took some peculiar calls. Cases included a savage attack on a guide dog by a pit bull; a mistake over a child’s age causing some schooling difficulties; a very difficult mystery illness that has left a constituent paralysed and a problem with illegal gaming machines in a youth club.

Phone calls included: A Sunday newspaper columnist asking whether I was leading a campaign to get Ed Balls elected as the next leader of the Labour Party (total nonsense); a Sunday newspaper journalist suggesting that a former Labour special adviser had been brought back to investigate Michael Ashcroft (again, not true) and a regional journalist inviting me to the launch of a new lads mag called “goggle-eyes” (unbelievable, but true).

Tonight, my wife and son are delivering Christmas presents up North. So I am going to take advantage of this, this and this. That is after I’ve finished this.