July
Suddenly I was an authority on New Zealand footpaths and John Buchan. What is more, I found a video of Cyril Smith and Geoffrey Dickens dancing to Bananarama.
By changing buses at East Midlands Airport I was able to visit St Mary and St Bardulph's at Breedon on the Hill.
Down in London, I interviewed Tim Farron and Ed Davey at the Social Liberal Forum conference.
I also looked at the scandal of Sir Peter Morrison,
August
I explored what will soon be the new campus of Northampton University but is currently a site of fascinating industrial dereliction.
The rapid degeneration of Lord Janner's health was noted, and I discussed the troubled image of the RSPCA among pet owners.
I wrote an article about Charles Masterman, one of my political heroes, for Liberator. Meanwhile Lord Bonkers introduced us to the inflatable Julian Huppert.
Homophobic monks were everywhere and I argued that the housing shortage was the fault of builders not councils.
September
My friend and Liberator colleague Simon Titley died.
I wrote about the remarkable ancestry of the Labour leader John Smith and recalled the dark side of Doctor Barnardo.
If I kept a writer's notebook I would have put this exchange in it. And I wrote about my forebear who defied Queen Victoria.
I found that I had performed on the same stage as Steve Winwood (about 18 months after he did).
Still in showbiz, I wrote about Brond - a long-forgotten Channel 4 series - and got a tweet from John Hannah.
