I’d better post this now, in the middle of the night, while no-one’s paying attention.

It seems that I’ve been very generously nominated by my fellow Lib Dems for some shiny awards and the judges have, in their wisdom, put me in the shortlist for 3 categories, which is wonderful – thank you very much. I think I can speak for most of the shortlistees when I say that the competition this year is terrifying. I’ll hopefully be three sheets before they start reading out the results.

While you’re over on Lib Dem Voice looking at the lists, there’s a category open to the public for you to vote for your favourite non-Lib Dem political blog. Now, without wishing to influence your vote, you couldn’t go too far wrong voting for Sharpe’s Opinion (I lied about not influencing your vote), which is a much under-rated and under subscribed blog considering the quality of his posts.

In disconcerting news, I’m now also in the unenviable position of ending up as the highest ranked individual female blogger on the overall Top 100 UK Political Blog’s chart (coming in at 23rd overall). After me it’s Nadine Dorries at 46, then Sadie’s Tavern, Kerry McCarthy MP, our own Caron Lindsay, JuliaM, Alix Mortimer, Laurie Penny and.. and… that’s it. That’s your lot. Now this doesn’t include people like Helen Duffett, who writes for Lib Dem Voice or anyone else that contributes to a collaborative blog,  and it doesn’t include blogs that don’t make the gender of the author clear (for whatever reason).

But that’s 8 out of 100… which is shocking. I feel like I should try to do something about this, but I have no idea what… a question for another day, perhaps.