Just watched my last edition of Newsnight before the election (won't have time tomorrow night) and am sitting here thinking about the next couple of days.
I'm thinking about conversations over the past few days:
The elderly farmer whose decided to vote Liberal Democrat for the first time in his life. Because he likes our policies, because he wants to back the local man and because he is so impressed with what my colleague Tim Farron has achieved in neighbouring Westmorland.
The charity worker who has seen Liberal Democrats working locally and not just talking about what they are going to do in the future. The person who saw our Councillors on the Penrith litter pick and asked where the other parties were. The Newton Rigg student who marched with us and noticed that the other parties were there for the photographs but didn't march the 2 miles to the college.
Our deliverers, who have hand delivered over 40,000 leaflets and newspapers and who have carried on when we've asked the impossible. They have an inner belief in our cause and have carried on when they felt like putting their feet up and taking the evening off. They have so many stories to tell, and, after the election I'll have time to take them all in.
The lady whose husband was a crew member on our nuclear V force, in the 60's. We shared memories of those times - when I was an air cadet being shown around the Vulcan bombers at RAF Cottesmore and her husband was flying in Victors. She told me about the Cuban crisis and about when her husband had admitted that in the event of a "real" mission none of the crew expected to return. I told her of the time that I sat in on a pilots briefing as they planned which city would be obliterated that night. And I thought of what can happen when it all goes wrong and 1p on income tax becomes totally irrelevant as our world disappears in a atomic cloud.
The young couple in Pooley Bridge who have no hope of buying a house at market value and have no chance of renting anything on a year round tennancy. They were thinking of voting for the first time ever because they recognise that this election is different and that there's a real chance of change in Penrith and The Border.
And, what about the star of the election - Nick Clegg? Well, we knew him before he was famous!
I remember him standing in our farmyard sharing a mug of tea with local farmers, listening to their concerns. He listened, then he acted, appointing Tim Farron as DEFRA spokesman. Nick launched our Rural Manifesto a few days ago and some of it's content went right back to that conversation in our yard.
The Nick Clegg that you see on television is new to many viewers, but to us he's the same Nick as has been up here on many occasions - the genuine article!
Finally, the conversations with my family as two very different futures lie ahead - to be decided on Thursday - by you, the voter. The plans about how we would organise our lives in order to serve this great constituency. The recognition that our lives may never be the same again and the realisation that Penrith and The Border could experience a fundamental change in it's political landscape, as Westmorland and Lonsdale has in the past 5 years.
We'll know soon enough, and now it's time to get some sleep ready for an early start.
