Parole by election

John Naughton on why the US election is consuming his brain, despite the fact he lives in the UK:

Maybe it’s because there’s a possibility that on November 3 something might change in the US, whereas we in the UK are stuck with the worst government in living memory for another four years. So we’re like long-term prisoners serving time and looking enviously over the wall at our fellow-prisoners in the US who might just be paroled on November 4.

Today is a Zoom-free day. That is a good day.

Lovely walk with the girls, despite the dreich weather.

Dried thistle plants stand tall in a blurred natural landscape with trees and shrubs.

Should you turn on your video camera during online training?

Another day in front of the ring light…

A bright circular ring light is illuminated in a dim room with a phone holder mounted at its center.

Ah, the BBC’s Autumnwatch. Balm for the soul.

A television screen displays a scene of birds flying over a cemetery during twilight, with a colorful, childlike painting of flowers and greenery taped above the TV.

Here’s an unexpected pandemic side-effect: after six months of recording online training seasons and editing them for later reference by trainees, I no longer detest the sound of my own voice.

Half term adventures.

A girl running through a flooded path at Woods Mill.

Wellies was the right decision.

I walked up into Old Shoreham yesterday, to pick up some things. It’s interesting seeing the traces of the old village concealed within more modern housing.

An Old Shoreham house in Shoreham-by-Sea.