Other posts will emerge but like Nick Booth, I too was at the Tory Party Conference in Birmingham – invited via Screen West Midlands who were asked to suggest local bloggers who might go along. To be honest I haven’t much to say only having attended for one day. It was big and impressive but I’m sure they all are. Tories talk posh but then I guess they all do nowadays. In scale it reminded me of a trade union conference I once photographed where noone talked posh.

My highlight was seeing Boris (posh but funny) at a fringe event in the Midland Institute. It was great to hear Londoners, in Birmingham, moaning about their bins and bendy buses.

The biggest shock for me however was the atrocious image quality of the images taken with my new work blackberry, shocking I tell you: