• Worked for their local team, and was quite happy to challenge/push back on unreasonable top-down asks.
• Quite happy to admit they didn’t know stuff and asked for advice and ideas - and, of course, credited the appropriate team members for things that worked, but took responsibility themselves if things didn’t go well.
• Displayed authentic emotions and enthusiasm for the work, rather that present a bland corporate mask.

Beautifully shot and some fine performances all round. Very much a character-based one though. Don’t go into it looking for action or fast-moving plot.

Off to the theatre tonight: a stage production of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home.

I want to get the garden furniture out of the shed and resurrected tomorrow (sorry folks, I expect that it’ll be freezing rain for the next month once I do). The usual chores and then film night. I think it’s my choice this time. Maybe Mickey 17.

Then there is a coast walk that we have failed to do for a few weeks now. If the weather does hold, then that on Sunday.

The 1983 UK general election.

However, since I lived in a Tory safe seat (taking boundary changes into account, the last time that location had been anything except tory was a Whig in the C19th) I spoiled my ballot - writing some pithy comment across it about how meaningless the process was. That showed them!

Checking now, I see that it has continued as a Tory safe seat up to the present day.

Yup, Captain Scarlet for me too. Thanks to the theme tune, I recall being obsessed by the word ‘Indestructible’ for some time. I had no clear idea what it meant, but used it heavily anyway.

Chumbawamba’s discography - or even just this one on repeat.