Facebook has remined me that thirteen years ago today, Neil Laurenson came round to ask me to stand as a paper candidate for the Green Party in the the local elections due the following May. I said yes … setting my feet on the “ladder of engagement”, which has led me to some unexpected places. One of them is the job I’m currently prevaricating about getting round to: replacing the broken mains inlet socket on our Risograph printer. Like me, it’s getting elderly … together, we’ve done about one and half million copies over the nine years since Marjory Bisset persuaded me to adopt it.
