Our spirits are high these days. We are scoring occasional victories. These are not necessarily by majority votes. But votes aren't everything. One major success has been to persuade the government to keep the post of Chief Coroner.
This was something that had been proposed under Labour as a way of setting standards and maintaining services across the country. I always think it's good to have a chief anything - this way you always know to blame.
However in the slash-and-burn tactics that are how this government seeks to rule, they proposed scrapping the post altogether.
What to do? Labour Lords got together with concerned back benchers earlier this year and voted against the proposals by a hefty majority.
Back to the commons it went, where the government overturned the decision made the Lords. This sort of to and fro-ing is called, appropriately, 'ping-ponging.'
Back the Bill came to the Lords again, with the Tories insisting they wanted it passed. Then suddenly the idea was dropped.
What happened? Lowly folk like me aren't privy to political machinations, but the general agreement is Ken Clarke, the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice took the last minute decision to back down.
Perhaps they could see they were going to lose. Now the nation will have a Chief Coroner after all.
Well done the House of Lords!