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Hello,

Paddy's gone for a lie down , I'm back from Birmingham and Ed's away.

Thought you might like a bit of insight into how we covered the David Cameron speech at the conference yesterday. Mr C was supposed to start at 2.30. In the end after various videos, speeches from candidates and warm up acts, he took to the stage at 3pm and spoke till just after 4pm. Gulp.

Like the "roadrunner" cartoon we then had a tremendous dash to get our package together for 5pm and the opening of PM. I sat in the hall to hear the speech - back in the office Sarah and Charlie were pinpointing clips and cutting them digitally on the computer. I meantime faced a bit of a challenge to get my usual reaction straight after the speech. The Conservative organising team had decided to have the Shadow Cabinet sitting up on a raised stage behind David Cameron - so I couldn't easily do an interview because they were 6 feet above me. Luckily I caught Chris Grayling's eye and he stepped off the stage to talk to me while the applause was dying down.

Brought my material back to where Sarah was sitting in the press room. 4.30pm. Ran upstairs to find Nick Assinder from the website Politics 91Èȱ¬ who has provided a summary for us at the end of every week . Batteries ran out on my recording machine. New batteries in. Finished recording short int with Nick Assinder at 4.40. Just time to run back downstairs and try to put all the pieces of the jigsaw together in time for 5pm.

Life in the fast lane! Fun, but frantic. It's good to be back.

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