Viewpoint: Benefits of being a winner

I love the run up to a general election. I like the little insight into people’s psyches that I get from the party poster in their window, and I like it when the media is full of talk of manifestos and interviews with politicians.

This last week in particular, social media has also been providing its anticipated level of amusement courtesy of the amazing imagination of strangers on the internet who have come up with inventive ways to joke about the struggles of growing up without being able to watch Sky TV.

I know where I will be putting my X on election day, as I am sure most of you do too, so I will leave aside chatter about political leanings and focus instead on some other big news from the last week; the fact that the nominations for the Optician Awards are open.