Mary Reid

My response was not really adequate - someone had phoned me to tell me that I had been shortlisted for the Women in Public Life Awards 2008. In fact, I was totally astonished.

I'm up there with two others for the Local Government Personality of the Year. Voting on the shortlist is now open, but I can't canvass you, dear reader, unless you are an MP.

The awards are managed by Dods who are heavily involved in Parliamentary communications (such as The House, Westminster's own trade mag) so they are trying to attract Parliamentarians to their good works.

Now I've done my bit with the National Project for Local e-Democracy and with ICELE, but this has a real air of strangeness about it. Why hasn't 'Hello' called me yet?