Super Jeffrey!

It is with great pleasure that I announce my own first birthday!

Incredible stuff really. Re-reading my "Mission Statement" entry I am glad, nay proud, to see that I proved myself wrong. The delights of blogging would be a long term thing rather than a way to see out a lazy Friday afternoon. With 308 posts in a year, I'd say that's not a shabby run rate for one so politically naive (not to mention somewhat lazy).

And if a week in Politics is a long time, then a year in blogging can be an eternity. Since last Feb 5th I've set foot on 4 separate continents, taken on 4 different jobs (and starting with a world-reknowned bank this Monday), lived in 4 different flats, dumped someone and, later on, been dumped myself.

And politically, what a year to get involved in this cutting analysis of Scottish law-making. Or cheap banter and point-scoring as was more often the case for me.

The mighty (well, Jack and Wendy) have fallen or are falling. Alex and Nicola have led the meteoric rise of the SNP. The Lib Dems have all but disintegrated and Annabel Goldie has steadied a rather attractive looking Scottish Tory ship. Add to the mix that never before has Scottish independence seemed so tantalisingly and perhaps worryingly close and you have a recipe for political intrigue.

And what better example of said intrigue than the unprecedented level of attention the budget is receiving. A change of party at the top and minority administration has awoken the sleepiest from the deepest of slumbers. Iain McWhirter and Brian Taylor have never tapped their keyboards with so much fervour. Heck, even the Greens and Margo have an opinion worth listening to.

So it's been a lovely day. And a birthday gift for me of Super Tuesday results to follow late into the night? Perfect. I've always said that elections are the 'greatest spectator sport in the world' and I expect to be proved correct tonight.


Help yourself to cake....

PS A 'feliz navidad' to Mr Cameron Rose who also celebrates his first blogging birthday today.