Week 279: Two out of three

It was a short work week thanks to the bank holiday on Monday. I spent a few hours on Monday typesetting various pieces of music; I feel like I understand Lilypond better and better. I’ve been busy with the local elections recently, and especially on election day itself on Thursday. I woke just after 6 and spent a few hours delivering election day leaflets to identified Green supporters to encourage them to get out and vote. After work, L— and I spent an hour telling outside a polling station – that’s the thankless task of standing outside in the cold asking people if you can check off their poll number so that they don’t end up getting disturbed later on. After that, we went to knock on the doors of people to encourage them to vote before polls closed at 10. All that is a lot of work, and walking, and doing things that I really don’t particularly enjoy, but the past few months paid off: in the target ward (Rotherhithe) we got two out of three Green candidates elected. Because the…