Why do I enjoy leafleting ?

I do!

I really do.

I've just been leafleting the whole of North Ward over the past two day (well 90%)

Why do I enjoy it so much?

1. My main reason is that it brings me up to date as to what local houses, gardens and a peek at how people live. I am intensely curious about how others live. Having a leaflet in your hand provides a passport to get up close to where ( and how ) people live.

There's lots to be seen:
Piles of kids shoes in the lobby;
a great pile of stubbed out cigarettes - (someone has been banned from smoking inside!) ;
rubbish empty bottles in the garden - someone who's finding life difficult;
loads of kids toys - scooters, bikes - in the garden (they're having a good time);
very neat and tidy with gravel everywhere (perhaps a little unadventurous);
flower beds and greenhouses full of plants (someone enjoys their garden);
two separate paths done with identical gravel to two adjacent front doors with a well mown lawn in between and no fence separating them (two neighbours that get on well as though they are brother and sister);
a very long path up to a house with another similar path to the next house with front doors tantalisingly close but unreachable because of a sturdy fence (one of the householders isn't very considerate - the postman has to needlessly walk all the way up and down if he has post for both houses);
an identical set of paths but this time there's a little well used gap in the fence to let the postman through.

2. It's very enjoyable exercise: lots of stepping up and down - a relaxed pace going up and down slopes regularly often with plenty of steps.

3. You meet interesting people.

Dinner calls - more tomorrow.