Voting
In the morning making tea blearily saw the next door cat Cactus doing that pussyfooting slow walk away across the garden, and noticed that he was retreating from Calliope who had just sicked up her breakfast in his direction, obviously a scary new tactic in the cat wars.
Otherwise worked hard and uninterrupted apart from lunch with Betty before she zoomed off to Downs school to teach a drama lesson.
Lorraine home from work briefly before going out again, but we collected Beth and the three residents of Kenny Towers off in the car tonight to vote, all for Caroline Lucas. She is the country's only Green MP, and is probably the best MP I've ever had, enough anyway to make me swallow my tribal Labour loyalty and vote for her. I spoke to the Labour and Green guys outside, who said that turnout had been brisk.
Lorraine off to see Jan and her pals, Beth went off to buy a chicken breast and I had fish and chips, and watched a documentary about sharks. There are some weird Greenland sharks that have parasites in its eyes which make them all blind, and they lurk about in the water under the iceflows eating things that fall through the ice. What a life.
Stayed up long enough to start to see the election results coming in. At 10 o'clock the BBC announced that the exit poll showed that the Tories, who had been neck-a-neck with Labour for weeks, had suddenly broken free and were set to be the largest single party. I was genuinely shocked by this, as the last poll I saw showed that Labour was 1% ahead. Lorraine back from seeing her girlfriends in time to sit on the sofa. Nobody believed the poll at first, with former leader of the LibDems Paddy Ashdown declaring that he would eat his hat if the exit poll was correct.
To bed gloom-ridden. The turkeys had voted for Christmas.
Below: a Greenland shark.
Otherwise worked hard and uninterrupted apart from lunch with Betty before she zoomed off to Downs school to teach a drama lesson.
Lorraine home from work briefly before going out again, but we collected Beth and the three residents of Kenny Towers off in the car tonight to vote, all for Caroline Lucas. She is the country's only Green MP, and is probably the best MP I've ever had, enough anyway to make me swallow my tribal Labour loyalty and vote for her. I spoke to the Labour and Green guys outside, who said that turnout had been brisk.
Lorraine off to see Jan and her pals, Beth went off to buy a chicken breast and I had fish and chips, and watched a documentary about sharks. There are some weird Greenland sharks that have parasites in its eyes which make them all blind, and they lurk about in the water under the iceflows eating things that fall through the ice. What a life.
Stayed up long enough to start to see the election results coming in. At 10 o'clock the BBC announced that the exit poll showed that the Tories, who had been neck-a-neck with Labour for weeks, had suddenly broken free and were set to be the largest single party. I was genuinely shocked by this, as the last poll I saw showed that Labour was 1% ahead. Lorraine back from seeing her girlfriends in time to sit on the sofa. Nobody believed the poll at first, with former leader of the LibDems Paddy Ashdown declaring that he would eat his hat if the exit poll was correct.
To bed gloom-ridden. The turkeys had voted for Christmas.
Below: a Greenland shark.
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