Following a rendezvous with Shadow Chancellor George Osborne, at Oxford's careworn Covered Market, I discovered I had one more devotee for my blog.
It was John Evans, the Freedom of Information officer at the town hall, who informed me with a wry grin that he enjoyed my somewhat haphazard postings.
John left me at the counter in Pret a Manger before I could ask him what he enjoyed reading, and it struck me that I could perhaps suggest a few titles for his night-stand.
The first port of call for Mr Evans should be the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984. A number of Orwell's predictions have come true but did he foresee the Freedom of Information Act?
Other Utopian or dystopian titles might include Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, plus a selection of JG Ballard's latest novels, including Cocaine Nights.
To get a reminder of the heated debates that sometimes take place in the council chamber, Mr Evans could turn to William Golding's Lord of the Flies.
And books once banned in certain parts of the world could also be added to the collection. Why not try Rushdie's Satanic Verses, or Peter Wright's Spycatcher?
I remember in the 1980s how my father got a copy of Spycatcher sent over from Australia, to undermine the Government's publishing embargo.
I hope these titles give John a break from poring over the Freedom of Information Act to ascertain what info he is allowed to release to members of the public and troublesome journalists.
On a different note, it was touching to see the send-off the papers gave to Miss Joan Hunter Dunn, who died recently.
She was the inspiration for John Betjeman's charming poem A Subaltern's Love-song, and the story reminded me to return to my Betjeman collected poems.
Finally, congrats to staff at Mostly Books in Abingdon for being shortlisted for the British Book Industry Awards' New Bookshop of the Year category.
Owner Mark Thornton has set up a number of book clubs in the shop, and also runs his own blog. It's a great place for book lovers.