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REMOVE THIS FRAME
<div class="entry"> As part of my end of term nostalgia, I've been looking back at the last year on this blog, a year that's covered an election and its long build up, the historic formation of the first coalition government I've seen in my lifetime as well as one containing Liberal Democrats, a new Doctor Who and Michael Schumacher coming back to F1. How much excitement can one year hold?<br /><br />Anyway, last week I <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/07/year-on-carons-musings-part-1-most.html">published a list of the top then most popular posts</a> of the last year as determined by Google Analytics. Now, I thought I'd go back down memory lane to share some of my favourites which didn't make the top ten.<br /><br />First up, there was my view of the intrusive, unnecessary and authoritarian Vetting and Barring scheme planned by the Labour Government to <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2009/09/keeping-my-child-safe-over-anxious-mum.html">keep our children safe.</a><br /><br />I <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/did-i-miss-labours-holyrood-democracy.html">wondered if I'd missed something</a> when Labour were so opposed to the new Government's idea of when Parliament should be dissolved.<br /><br />I was so angry when Gordon Brown <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2009/09/browns-barbaric-plans-to-stigmatise.html">outlined his plans to stigmatise teenage mothers</a> because, you know, getting pregnant is all their fault.<br /><br />I wrote several posts around the time the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, Abdel Basset Mohmed al-Megrahi. I believed then, and still believe that it was the right thing to do on compassionate grounds. I don't for one moment think that Kenny MacAskill was inflluenced by BP or anyone else, although I had doubts about the process. <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2009/09/tasty-dish-of-red-herring-what-letters.html">This post </a>sums up a lot of my thinking at the time.<br /><br />I was pleased that <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2009/09/morning-at-pantomime-holyrood-megrahi.html">this review</a> of the Holyrood debate on Megrahi's release was praised by people from various sides as being fair. I do try.<br /><br />When Nicola Sturgeon faced the wrath of the Scottish Parliament, <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/02/nicola-sturgeon-should-she-resign.html">I was concerned </a>that constituency casewor was becoming a political football.<br /><br />I celebrated Valentine's Day by looking back at how I met my husband - <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/02/lure-of-lentil-gunge-or-how-bob-was-won.html">and it involved lentils.</a><br /><br /><a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/02/future-fair-for-all-take-2.html">This slightly tipsy post</a> on Labour's new slogan earlier this year makes me happy because I think it was the first time <a href="http://millenniumelephant.blogspot.com/">the Lovely Elephant</a> linked to me.<br /><br />Talking of elephants,<a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/03/f1-behold-march-of-pregnant-elephants.html"> the march of the pregnant ones</a> commenced in March - or, rather, here's my F1 season preview.<br /><br />But that was after I'd had a whole litter of kittens in sheer excitement <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2009/12/f1-hes-back-michael-schumacher-and-ross.html">at the thought of Mr Schumacher's return.</a><br /><br />It was the election and the aftermath that caused many emotional highs and lows. When you're a peace loving leftie liberal hippy, the idea of working with Tories does not come easy, to put it mildly, especially when you're completely exhausted and your emotions have been through the wringer after <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/sorry-guys-i-lost.html">the worst election night ever.</a> There was the wait for news, <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/browns-bombshell-puts-labour-back-in.html">weighing up the options</a>, watching<a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/mixed-emotions-as-cameron-enters.html"> it start to take shape with an eery feeling of surreality</a>, seeing <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/all-smiles-me-included-as-nick-clegg.html">Nick enter Downing Street for the first time</a>. Since then we've had <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/conservative-liberal-democrat-coalition.html">my splitting of the Coalition Agreement into the good, the meh and the "lock me in a cupboard with the gin bottle"</a>, the relative high of <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/05/lib-dem-thread-running-through-queens.html">the Queen's speech</a> and <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/06/budget-tough-but-fair-because-of-lib.html">the awfulness of the Budget</a>, tempered by <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/06/danny-alexander-rocks-commons-over.html">Danny Alexander rocking the Commons.</a><br /><br />What's clear is that this rollercoaster still has some way to run - and I will be musing my way through the twists and turns, peaks and troughs of the Lib Dems' first experience of Government at Westminster in my lifetime.<br /><br />While I'm coping with the slings and arrows of outraged Labourites, and alternating between feeling glad that Lib Dems are implementing Lib Dem policies and feeling faintly nauseous at some of the Tory stuff we're letting through, I shall continue to be distracted by trashy tv, not so trashy Doctor Who and <a href="http://carons-musings.blogspot.com/2010/07/tour-de-france-how-i-became-fascinated.html">lovely men on bikes.</a> This blog is as much therapy as it is an meander round Liberal Democrat thinking.<br /><br />So that's it for the nostalgia at the moment. I hope you've enjoyed this little retrospective and have found stuff you haven't read before. We're done with the navel gazing - until next year!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/34128264-4363188723317778283?l=carons-musings.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div></div>
