Take me seriously, says Cllr Bance
I feel like I should blog reflections on my first year of being a councillor. But I’m tired and it’s late, so instead here’s me in my element, glass of wine in hand and dignity flying out the window as I try out twirling in councillor robes at mayor-making last week…

Update: more silliness over at the Deputy Lord Mayor’s place, where he has a You Tube clip of the sub-medieval pageantry of the Lord Mayor’s Parade on Saturday - not the bits where it poured with rain. At 00:24, you see me walk through the picture in a very fetching bonnet…

very fetching - what a ridiculous bonnet!