Getting On With It

Sales of Red Bull are returning to normal. Candidates and their campaign teams have caught up with the hoovering and "Ashes to Ashes" on Sky Plus. Cameron and Clegg have shared smiles in the rose garden and Gordon's gone.

The relentless TV coverage may have owed more to football punditry than political commentary, but that'll be over soon as well - maybe.

Labour's Peter "Boo Hiss, the Tories are behind you" Hain is still getting air time, I see. Kim Howells (also Lab) has been characteristically up front with his widely-shared views about Lib Dem campaigning. Now it's Neil Kinnock (er, Lab again) on the box. And David Cornock's got a quick smack on the head with a rolled up newspaper for Cheryl Gillan for the crime of not representing a Welsh seat and - confound her! - still getting 8 Welsh Conservative MPs.

Please tell me we're moving on from all this. Time to say goodbye to this soap opera and let the real story unfold. This baby government needs to given a fighting chance to mature, without the media poring over every milestone like over-anxious, over-dramatic first-time parents.

But, if you still like your "doof doof" moment, wait for this time next year. When all those outraged Labour tactical voters take out their ire out on the Welsh Lib Dems in the Assembly election.