Percentages

A tiny period of lovely blue sky this morning seemed to lift the whole day, even made getting rained on (only a bit) whilst out canvassing forgettable.
Watching the percentage of the division Ive canvassed, and how many leaflets my small but slowly growing team have delivered is also strangely rewarding - today I was back in Kirkby Stephen - meeting old and disabled folks who tell me they feel trapped by the withdrawal of the bus service, people who've not left their homes in over a week, reliant on neighbours and family. Very very sad.
I also visited Kelleth, Gaisgill (where we first lived when we came to Cumbria) and one of the counties many many Newbiggins (on Lune)


Top Tips Tuesday
The single most important commodity in the event of an accident in the mountains is information. All first aid kits should have a pencil and paper - even better a casualty care card (feel free to email me & Ill happily send a template i use).
The form will act as an aide memoire - and it should be at least partially filled in BEFORE you send for help. Mountain accidents can be traumatic - by writing the basics down, who, what, where & when you're vastly increasing the chances of help being effective.
& if you're in a foreign country and communication is difficult? Well that paper and pencil will be vital again - the simplest casualty card is an outline of a person, with the source of trouble indicated - universally understood (depending on your drawing skills you could probably indicate male or female too, and numbers are almost universal)