topEntry Six: Making sacrifices
You don't have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing and you don't have to be a genius to see that climate change is real and is happening now.
While we talk and plan and debate climate change moves closer to the tipping point, the point where nothing we do can save us from the devastating consequences of the reckless abandon with which we pump more and more carbon into the atmosphere.
I'm afraid my frustration with too much talk and too little action is what gave rise to Green Wednesday. Yes, it was sudden, it is drastic, and it will be inconvenient but the price of dragging our feet is too high.
If we can't halt climate change millions of people will be displaced, the global economy will be plunged into a crisis that will affect every one of us, sea levels will rise, flooding and storms will be more commonplace, food will be scarcer. The way of life that has become so precious to us will end in a constant struggle to cope.
Against that, doing without your car on one day every week isn't really such a big deal now is it?
I've been accused of gimmick politics but Green Wednesday is no gimmick, it's a very serious way in which we can address a very serious problem.
I didn't go through the normal, political process to achieve it but then you didn't vote for me because I was a politician did you? I believe it's the right thing to do so why would I want to hang about?
Climate change is a global crisis but we don't have to wait for global agreement before we act, as a nation or as individuals. I hope that others will follow our lead because we won't save the planet on our own.
But we are the country, you are the people, trying to do things differently and if we can't be bold and brave about tackling climate change then everything else we are achieving isn't going to last.
topEntry Five: One year in office
Twelve months ago I knew very little about politics. A year in Downing Street has proved to be an intensive education.
Some of that education has been driven by events, some by regular, intensive briefings on a wide range of subjects.
I have learned some hard lessons, had to deal with difficult situations. Sometimes I have found myself at odds with friends and allies, personal ones and those of this country.
But whenever I plan how to act, or to react, the most important thing is staying true to the principles on which we were elected.
That won't always make me popular but I started out trying to make the point that things should be, and can be, done better and I have to see it through.
The Walthamstow disaster has been a lesson with a deeply tragic cost attached to it but it has made me determined to forge a new relationship with Europe.
Moving Parliament to Bradford has also raised an issue. Should we plan for a throne in our new second house? I have the greatest respect for the Queen but I am duty bound to ask if the United Kingdom has outgrown the monarchy.
I expect you will let me know...
topEntry Four: More determined than ever
When I doubted that I could do this job it was the talent and commitment of the people around me that convinced me that I could.
So when some of them asked me to deliberate a bit more on the plan to move Parliament to Bradford I agreed.
That's not the same as dithering, or being indecisive. I promised that I would listen to the people of the UK and while I know that the overwhelming majority of them are in favour of the move I know that it would be unfair not to listen to the viewpoint of those who aren't.
I said that we would change the way we do politics in this country and moving out of London would be a major step forward in encouraging greater public involvement in governing this country. It's too important to be left to a London elite.
I am conscious that there is a lot of history and tradition attached to the places from where we are governed but I am here to write a new chapter, one that starts now.
We only have that opportunity because centuries of democracy, struggle and crises faced have given us a solid, stable foundation, one that can cope with open and vigorous debate, challenge and change.
However, the best way to respect what our past has given us is to renew our democracy, make it as representative of our people as is humanly possible.
Many countries in the world struggle to establish the democracies that can bring their people security, justice and a real say in how they are governed. I have seen how difficult and dangerous that can be which is why the grubby, little personal attacks on me, and on my family, seem ever more trivial. They won't distract me from doing what has to be done.
topEntry Three: Overcoming doubt
Well, that's it then. Prime Minister, me, Roz Pritchard from Eatanswill.
I've accepted the Queen's request to form a government but it's no secret that I had my doubts as I went into Buckingham Palace. After all, as Sir David Steele was unkind enough to point out on TV, I know nothing about government.
But then you voted for me because I wasn't a politician, not because I was. The people of the United Kingdom put their trust in me and my colleagues so I have resolved to knuckle down and do my best to justify that trust.
The sheer scale of the Prime Minister's job is a daunting one with a constant stream of decisions to be made, some of them on matters of life and death.
However, I do have a lot of good people to call on and there is one great resource of ideas and inspiration I fully intend to call on - you, the people of the United Kingdom...
topEntry Two: All around, a purple haze
The enormity of what we have achieved is only now beginning to hit me. The election campaign was so hectic, we worked so hard trying to get our message out that I didn't really look much beyond the day of the vote.
I worried about the impact all the attention and all the demands of the campaign were having on my family, friends and colleagues. Being there for them all has always been important to me and I couldn't, and wouldn't, have done it without their support.
I was thrilled to be able to put my X against my own name on the ballot paper and I felt so vindicated when I heard that the turnout to vote had been massive, that tens of thousands of people who had felt like me were now re-engaging with politics.
But now I am facing up to fact that this is not the end of something but the beginning of something very daunting. We didn't just make a point, we won a general election, won it convincingly.
I missed it myself but I'm told that the sight of Peter Snow's big map of the UK steadily turning purple was something to see.
That was a sign of a great number of people putting their faith in us.
And that's an enormous responsibility.
topEntry One: The last straw
I didn't really mean to start a new political movement, I just wanted to make a point.
Obviously, a lot of other people have wanted to make the same point, that we had no-one to vote for in this coming election because we were really fed-up with conventional politics.
Like me, a lot of people were exasperated by the fact that although we hear a lot from politicians none of them was speaking our language.
The last straw for me was when two local politicians made a right spectacle of themselves scuffling outside Greengages, the supermarket I manage in Eatanswill. The point had to be made that we faced no real choice at the election with things as they were so I put my own name forward as a candidate.
It's clear now that I wasn't alone in the way I felt. It has been really astounding to see how so many women, all over the country, have been inspired to do the same.
With that, and a very welcome sprinkling of women defecting from backbenches and frontbenches, the Purple Alliance has been formed and now has real momentum going into the election.
Maybe, we'll soon be in a position to make a few more points about the way this country is run.