Here in Lush Places, the champagne corks are popping as Oliver Letwin is returned as MP for West Dorset with an increased majority.

Whatever your politics, he’s a smart man and a good constituency MP.

My Tory and Labour and Lib Dem guests are snoring and yawning but still waiting for the South Dorset result. The live webcam on the Weymouth and Portland Borough Council website isn’t giving much away. It’s very dull.

In this part of Dorset, the posters are being removed from the window, like Christmas decorations on Twelfth Night. The film editor and his nurse wife, the social worker, the teacher and I are about to go home for a good night’s sleep. For the banker, the retired policeman, the deer stalker, the consultant and the retired PA, the party is just about to begin.

That’s politics for you.