Thank goodness only one more day. Five to six hours of delivering leaflets a day is beginning to take its toll. On the other hand, I have a fabby tan and toned muscles. I do always regard elections as a get fit opportunity – a counterweight to the meetings I sit in for most of the time.

The BBC telephone me and want to come and film me to go out on the news. Now, I am dressed somewhat informally in shorts and T-shirt – but decide as this is meant to be politic real, I will stay thus dressed and be seen ‘au natural’. I telephone Wayne Hoban, the LibDem GLA Enfield and Haringey candidate to join me as they want someone else on the knock as well.

Happily, he too is dressed in shorts. And we knock on doors. No preparation – no set up – but wonderful happenstance. The first door was an elderly Asian man who was voting LibDem. The next – there was a crisis with a baby, then a few ‘outs’ and then, the piece de resistance, a young bloke who had always voted Labour but this time, for the first time, was voting Lib Dem. And he gave the reasons: Iraq, top-up fees, loss of trust – the list is becoming endless.

I was pleased, because I had told the camera crew that this was what was happening on swathes of doorsteps – and here was a real life example of what I had said was the case being demonstrated in fact to be the case. Hurrah!

PS Several comments to me on my legs following broadcast of campaigning Lynne on doorstep – in my old feminist days I would have been insulted – with advancing years I am just grateful!