Promotion or Demotion?
The subtitle (or aston as it's known in the trade) which appeared on screen when I was on Stormont Live this afternoon referred to me as Mark Devenport MLA. I don't think it identified which party I was representing.
This weekend we took the children to the Ulster Orchestra's Christmas Concert, featuring a rendition of the "Snowman" whilst the film played in the background.
At the end of the concert, a cloud of massive white balloons floated down onto the audience's heads, much to the children's delight. Without pausing for a moment, a man in a nearby seat, who I didn't know, quipped "I suppose you must have lots of experience dealing with big balloons."
Now was he referring to our MLAs, or my ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ colleagues?
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Hello again everybody! Did you miss me? Apart from one tired and not very clever comment, I haven't been around lately.
So Mark, you want to know whether "big balloons" refers to politicians or journalists? It's kind of hard to tell. You see, the problem is, somebody once got a big brush and dipped it in tar....
P.S. any chance of starting an argument about IP jnr and the Sweeney land deal? It's just that I have something I want to say on the matter, but manners prevent me changing the subject.