My first week in the job, by new Conservative MP for Westbury On Trym Charlotte Leslie

Westbury On Trym's new MP Charlotte Leslie has been talking about her first week in the job.

Writing in The Observer today, the Conservative member for Bristol North West likens her week to zorbing - the sport where people travel fast downhill in an orb.

She tells of the excitement of being summoned to London as the country entered "uncharted territory" and how she felt like a "sausage on a conveyor belt," as she was escorted round Portcullis House in Westminster, where MPs have their offices, to learn the rudiments of Parliament.

She writes: "For me, it's been a week of the enormous and the tiny: the enormous question as to how and whether the Conservative party would form a government with the Lib Dems alongside my urgent need to find a powerful secretary to help set up my office and, indeed, when I would actually get an office. (It's going to be several weeks yet, I'm told.)

"And it's been a week of perspective. To my surprise, the abiding memory of the past incredible seven days has not been the great towers of parliament, or even the first smell of the green benches, but all those little graphite crosses, over 19,000 of them, in a box next to my name on election night."

Read her article in full at http://tinyurl.com/392jpjr