The last week has been amazing. There's been a definite infectious buzz in the air!

The Manifesto launch at the Brighton Metropole hotel went really well - was delighted by the media coverage.

Our innovative Election Broadcast with its capacity to deliver relevant personalised messages is busily reaching a wide audience through cyberspace (see it at www.onlygreen.org.uk).

But it's the enthusiasm of the people whom I'm meeting that I'm finding most exciting.

Being out in the streets, canvassing, at stalls and just walking through the streets, the response has been quite remarkable.

There is so much good will around.

I've been struck by just how many people want to come and talk about policies, pick up information, take posters, offer support and volunteer help.

I'm acutely aware of the burden of expectation, because there are so many people out there who want this to happen.

The Green campaign in Brighton Pavilion is attracting interest not only in this country but also further afield, with the latest journalist to beat a path to Brighton being the UK correspondent of the French newspaper 'Liberation'.

Having got wind that something special might be happening, she came down to cover the story, and was bowled over by the energy and enthusiasm of the campaign team and activists.

"It's very exciting here, isn't?" she volunteered. "There's a real frisson in the air".

She went on to talk about the recent French elections in which the Greens beat the Socialists in the national vote.

She talked of her sense of a general mood of discontent with politics and traditional parties and a desire for real change, not just a slogan of change.

I agree. People are hungry for something different - witness the response to something as little different as Nick Clegg in the leader's debate!

There is a mood, not just in Brighton, but across Britain, that we don't want things to go on the way they are - as Johann Hari put it so beautifully in ‘The Independent' on Saturday, people want "policies that can make Britain a more equal and fulfilled society...where we find common cause in each other, and in the common cause of saving the biosphere."

My teenage son has recently got in to Bob Dylan and it seemed not inappropriate that, as I walked in through the door last night, blaring out from the speakers were the immortal words, ‘The times they are a-changin'.

Let's hope so...