Our Day Out

Yesterday we went to the Assembly, to see a plenary session and meet Plaid Cymru AM Leanne Wood. Watching a plenary session, you sit in a public gallery above the main debating chamber. The AMs are obviously very aware that they're on camera when they're speaking, but equally obviously, have long since forgotten the presence of (or are completely unself-conscious about) the public in the gallery, who can see what the AMs are doing when they're not directly involved in the debate. And so they sit there, surfing the web, texting, emailing, or reading magazines.

But I'm sure a lot of very valuable work gets done as well...