Saturday, to the adoption meeting at Liberal Hall, Orpington, to support our candidate David McBride, who is Leader of the LibDem Group on Bromley Council. He has lived in Orpington since he was a child and knows the local problems and needs, a factor I hope will give him a bit of an edge over the Tory candidate, who is new to the constituency.

Sunday, to Lyulph's for a family party, the last opportunity to see Alex before he goes to Edinburgh to start his research project at the MRC laboratory there, on the application of artificial intelligence to the connection between genetic abnormalities and certain kinds of cancer.