Day 1 in Parliament - such an interesting day. Meeting a lot of old friends who were also entering Parliament for the first time - it felt like a reunion almost but still a lot to find out about each other. Parliamentary party meeting in the evening - the room was absolutely heaving.
The BBC wanted to film someone entering Parliament for the first time and I was happy to oblige (though I have always thought that I have the face for radio). Even that was interesting as the authorities wanted to find out what was going on.
After stepping inside, there is already a book with the pictures of all the new (and returning) MPs for the staff to get to know us. And so it continued like a first day at work... pass, personal details, computer, phone number and so on.. and an induction programme for the first few days.
Conventions may be changing as well - where you use a phone, shaking hands or not (traditionally MPs do not shake hands with each other), applause or banging the desk at meetings... I'll leave those discoveries for another day. It was also good to meet new MPs from other parties - I make an effort to introduce myself because although we may not share the same beliefs on policy, together we have to re-establish the integrity of Parliament.
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