In Newport today for Plaid Cymru's Spring Conference. Full coverage in tomorrow's Wales on Sunday, but here's a few extra snippets for you...
• How is being in coalition with Labour going to affect Plaid's chances in May's local elections? Leader Ieuan Wyn Jones was pretty confident it wouldn't be a factor when I spoke to him yesterday: "It doesn’t look like we’ll be punished, if you like, for being in government with Labour."
So what say you, Deputy Housing Minister Jocelyn Davies, speaking at a briefing for journalists this morning?
"Some may very well be put off voting Plaid because we're in coalition at Assembly level but that's a choice for them". This, we think, is called "being off-message".
• Speaking of Ms Davies, a joke doing the rounds here is that the conference is only being held in Newport so the South Wales East AM could attend. Her conference record is "patchy", one of her colleagues mutters: "She doesn't really do North Wales."
• The conference's opening speech this morning from South Wales East AM Mohammad Asghar was - how can I put this politely? - a stream of consciousness. Not only did he claim, bizarrely, that Newport is "the heart of Plaid Cymru", he also bemoaned the fact his daughter had moved to England and implored the Welsh Assembly Government that in the future Welsh children can "never ever leave Wales". I do not think this is official party policy.
What's more, he cited as one of Plaid's crowning achievements their policy of putting women at the top of all regional lists for Assembly Elections. Lord alone* knows what Dafydd Wigley thought of this plaudit: if it wasn't for the rule he'd be an AM again now. And they're scrapping it as a result.
• Finally, who was the idiot who left their mobile on, thus disturbing Mr Wigley's speech with a ringtone which - embarrassingly - was a burst of pounding techno? Whoops! It was me. Sorry.
*Pun intended