I went for a run this morning, (one of my very few training runs for the city to surf), and jogged straight past John Howard on his morning power walk twice. I’ve been running around North Sydney since he was elected, and he has been doing his morning power walk (when in town) all that time. That’s the first time I’ve actually seen him.
I’m sufficiently thrilled by celebrity that my first reaction was mild excitement, rather than wanting to take him to task for (take your pick from the various readers of this blog) asylum seekers, civil liberties or the republic.