Not too bad a day out there, weather-wise.  My difficulty these days is that I sleep badly at night and then spend the days making up for it. Doesn’t leave much time for consciousness.

   Such as there has been today has been devoted to the American presidential election. Much more fun to think about than our own. I listen to the World Service at night. They didn’t carry the debate, and comment was circumspect. It took me a while this morning to realise what the pundits were saying, and how unanimously. 

   I eventually listened to 15 or 20 minutes of the actual debate on Youtube. I don’t like Biden. And when you start from that point of view, his performance in the debate seemed typical and tolerable. But that’s not how the world is taking it. I haven’t heard from my sister. We didn’t have much of a chance to discuss politics while she was here, due to her Covid. And now even that chance is gone.

   Someone asked in a British “Any Questions” a couple of days ago, Are you two the only choice this country can offer? How much more resonant the question seems over there! Either Starmer or Sunak could steer GB for the next five years without total disaster (I hope) but in the White House….

Wordle: five for me. All I care about these days is not failing. Starters gave me two greens and a brown. Line three didn’t take long, but it was wrong. First letter missing! A Wordle special! Line four likewise! Panic! Fortunately, however, I had run out of possibilities

   Thomas and Theo,  more fives, had the same problem. Rachel and Ketki, two more fives, had a similar struggle with a gap in letter four. Alexander and Mark scored fours. Silence from Roger. He can’t even claim he was up all night watching the debate.