A run, breakfast with my daughter and into the Commons. At 1100 the Coxswain of the Weymouth lifeboat and his wife, Andy and Helen Sargent, arrived outside the Commons, stuck in a long queue. I quickly recovered them and got them into the Chamber in time for PMQs. With Mr Cameron in Israel, it was the turn of the 2nd XI to have a go in the shape of Nick Clegg and Harriet Harman. Ms Harman was not in the mood to take prisoners and began to get under Mr Clegg's skin with taunts of one kind or another. It was prime time Clegg-baiting and the Labour side of the House certainly enjoyed themselves, as did my guests. We then had lunch and I learnt a little more about our courageous and dedicated lifeboat skipper and his lovely wife. We had a lot of fun, which sadly had to come to an end as I returned to my office and the couple had to get back to Weymouth. We are all indebted to Andy and of course behind every good man is an equally good woman, and I could see that Helen fitted that mould to perfection! Back upstairs, I worked on this week's newspaper column. I chose N Ireland after the appalling revelations that nearly 200 suspected terrorists had been sent keep-out-of-jail letters by Labour and continued under our Government. I also had a mass of correspondence to deal with, including the emotive topic of badger culling. There's a Backbench debate on this tomorrow, which I cannot attend due to many commitments in the constituency. We were dropped to a one-line whip in mid afternoon, but I stayed until 1830 when I headed back down to Dorset.