Mary Reid

Alex Wilcocks has challenged Lib Dem bloggers to pick out their own best blog entries in the last year.

The idea is to make it easier to for readers to make nominations for the Best Posting on a Lib Dem blog category in the Blog of the Year Awards. I'm not really aspiring to that (well....) but I thought it would be fun to do anyway.

So here are my best bits since 1st Sept last year.

I wrote How Shere Close influenced Government policy just last week, and it brings together my very local interests in supporting the people who live in the ward, with my national campaigning on democracy issues.

Also recently, Saving Bletchley Park links one of my heroes, Alan Turing, with two women from Surbiton - I always try to find the local angle!

Cheap clothes was my train of thought after arriving to speak at a conference, only to find that I had left most of my clothes behind.

What is a close friend, and why did it matter to Mayor Ken?  All is revealed in Close friends, but not a sexual relationship

The early findings of appalling child abuse in Jersey got me thinking about how attitudes towards the treatment of children have changed for the better. During my own childhood, institutionalised violence was considered acceptable, and at the time when I became professionally involved in education child sex abuse was dismissed as a fantasy. I wrote about the Contexts of abuse.

What do you want to be when you grow up?  It seems that work I did in my gap year, which sent me off on my own career path, has come to fruition over 40 years later.

Now that was fun -  I really enjoyed trawling through a year in my life.