Highs and lows

I'd wondered if the the recent publicity for this blog through the Southland Times and Southland Express might have had an effect of readership - I imagined it might have a beneficial effect but there was no way of knowing whether it would boost or kill off my readership, so I took a look behind the scenes at the 'stats' facility that Blogger provides for its bloggers and found that it's climbing strongly. That's very pleasing and I know what to do if at some stage it begins to dip - wind up my fellow councillors to such an extent that they throw me into the spotlight again! It won't be difficult - they're getting very tetchy about my expressed interest in Solid Energy's plans for mining Mataura, even though I assure them, quite genuinely, that our role as councillors is to unearth (sorry for the pun) all of the facts from all sides of the argument, before making any decisions. Hasn't placated some of them though and they continue to simmer :-)

Nominations are in, the race is on!

Cue TV has invited all candidates to take part in the series of televised debates and I've booked a seat on the Environment Southland candidates panel. The time frame is very short - an introduction then a series of questions from the floor.

I'm looking foward to it very much, in part and as I said to the Cue TV woman who contacted me, because I'm told I have a great face for radio.