![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jul. 9th, 2007 09:42 pmMick, Matthew and I spent a chunk of Sunday in Sedgefield delivering leaflets for our by-election candidate Greg Stone. I have never knowingly visited the ex-PM's constituency before (although I must have been through it en route North) and was quite surprised by the layout, type of housing, quantity of rural area etc. etc. Certainly the bits we were in did not feel or look like the rock solid Labour seats I've seen in the North and North East before.
Teesdale lies to the west of Sedgefield. My parents lived there for several years in the 1970s when my Dad was in charge of the Methodist circuit based on Middleton-in-Teesdale. The proximity was tempting so we travelled home via Barnard Castle which I once knew quite well. The scenery lived up to expectations and a drink in a newly smoke-free pub was very welcome.
Teesdale lies to the west of Sedgefield. My parents lived there for several years in the 1970s when my Dad was in charge of the Methodist circuit based on Middleton-in-Teesdale. The proximity was tempting so we travelled home via Barnard Castle which I once knew quite well. The scenery lived up to expectations and a drink in a newly smoke-free pub was very welcome.
