37th in Top 100 Green Bloggers

It's OK you are still at Ruscombe Green - readers of this Blog will see the site has had a colour and format change (old version left). I was getting tired with the old format that apparently is used by 25% of Green Bloggers.

Jim Jay of "The Daily (Maybe)" Blog has been compiling the Top 100 Green Bloggers in the UK - his results can now be viewed here - one of his recommendations was to ditch that format if you want to stand out from the others. I hope he's watching and that'll shift me up a couple of places for next year....

Anyhow I've used his Top 100 as an excuse for a press release to local press who didn't cover the Blog when I first started it - few councillors are doing this in Gloucestershire and while I'm not sure how much it adds to the democratic process, it is at least an attempt to be more open about what we do as politicians, to share some thoughts and debate ideas. 37th in the list is pretty respectable considering I've only been going 6 months and most of the issues covered are very local.

Indeed part of the motivation for starting this Blog was that neither Parishes in my ward have a newsletter to all residents - a Blog could help allow for more debate of issues and sharing about what is going on. As for the paper newsletters we are working on it! Infact we were meant to have the first editors group meeting for Whiteshill and Ruscombe Parish a week ago - cancelled for some reason that I forget now but can remember being very pleased at the time as it gave me an evening free of meetings! But hopefully we'll be getting something out in that Parish later in new year.

Anyway I'm on the mend after having too many days in bed feeling very unwell - missed the inland waterways demonstration on Saturday and what was apparently a great night on Friday at Star Anise talking about food with the Coffee House Discussions sponsored by the Green party. Might venture outside tomorrow....