It’s been a busy few weeks in Tatton over the Easter period.

It started off with meeting Rob Polkinghorne, the new chief executive for Cheshire East Council to discuss the state of roads across the local area.

As I wrote in my last Guardian column, residents are rightly fed up and want to see action. The money is there – and as I previously said government has provided local councils with significant amounts of extra money to do the work.

The chief executive appreciated the work needs to be done and will be setting out a schedule of repairs.

He knows I’ll keep pushing the council on this issue just like my constituents are pushing me to get answers from Labour-led Cheshire East. As soon as I have more information, I will share it.

A lot of my time was spent with constituents in advice surgeries or in private meetings with businesses but I can share details of a couple of visits I made which were fascinating. 

Firstly, I went to Jacobs in Knutsford – which were involved in designing the first nuclear power station in the UK – and we discussed their current projects and the recruitment of apprentices and graduates into the business.

Then it was straight on to the Cuckooland Museum (previously known as Cuckoo Clock Museum), in Tabley, where I saw the world’s largest collection of Cuckoo Clocks.

The museum was established by two brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski who became fascinated with clocks as teens and went into the trade as apprentices after leaving school at 15.

They have been to the four corners of the globe hunting down the best and most unique pieces trying to beat rival collectors from America and Germany and now the museum boasts 750 clocks.

Their USP is that all of their clocks are made in the Black Forest area of Germany. That was quite a day!

In between the visits and surgeries, I managed to squeeze in a couple of my regular Ask The MP Q and A sessions where I get to meet and discuss all manner of issues with constituents.

As the Easter recess came to a close, on Saturday, invited by Dr Fari Ahmad from Wilmslow GP Practice I joined hundreds of residents at the first Health and Wellbeing Fair held at Wilmslow Leisure Centre.

Organised by CHAW care community (which champions health and wellbeing for residents of Chelford, Handforth, Alderley Edge and Wilmslow) – was all about how to care for yourself and focused on empowering local residents with information they need to better manage both their physical health and mental wellbeing.