Just after 8, saw the early sun shining onto the beech trees at the top of the park, and felt the cold promise of the good part of Sunday. A bit like being back on my paper round.

0400 0 Moon
0600 FROST
6-8 Sun

Horrible cold wet day. The FT had the r/wallstreetbets logo on its front page. Now that's not an image I ever thought I'd see.

0500 RAIN
8 Sc\Windy E
1500 cont
2200 Moon, cold.

RAIN overnight
0300 Moon
->~4 Sun
1500 cloudier

Extraordinary scenes with r/wallstreetbets in the mainstream media because they've pumped up the price of some game retailer - and today because the bubble shows signs of bursting and they suspect foul play (rather than the nature of bubbles).

0300 RAIN
0600 8 stops
0930 clearing
->some sun

0600 8 Cs *-through
0730 ->->MIST
0900 RAIN
stops
1400 <8 Sc-allop Sun cracks
1800 8 As Moon-through
Milder

0700 <8 Bright cracks
FROST
1230 4/8 dark Ac/As Sun-through
1330 SHOWER
1730 RAIN

Bright cold frosty day. Back from early morning work just before 8. Saw the sun rising again, very inspiring.

0400 8
0600 0 * FROST
0800 Sun

Dreamt I was back at work and died of COVID, and they threw my body down the stairs.

Talked to parents on phone , they were pleased by my improving mental health. Wondered if it was the Biden inauguration on Wed that made me improve on Thu?

0600 -2°C
<8
HEAVY FROST
Sun-breaks
AM. SHOWER

Went to the loo in the town centre. That's the first time in over 10 months I've used any toilet other than my own at home.

0600 8
0800 ≤8
c.1400 Bright cracks
Cold
1530 RAIN
->SNOW SHOWER
1845 SHOWER

Wonder if the improved weather these last couple of days has anything to do with my improved mood, which continued today.

0600 0 * FROST
≤2 Sun all day

Woke up tingling at 2.30am when I heard a crash, of my recycling box blowing over. I intrepidly went out into the gale with a head torch and picked it up.

In the morning went out to the Tesco Express. On the way back I had a sudden feeling that I was thinking more clearly again. Saw a beautiful sunrise across the river valley just as the sun reached the horizon. The clearing of my mental fog.

So nice to hear 'The White House spokesperson' and remember it isn't some cunt any more. Little leaver Britain is suddenly looking out on a limb.

RAIN overnight
VERY WINDY
0600 1 *
0800 2 Sun
--->
1400 8

Spoke to parents on phone. They both got the Pfizer vaccine yesterday.

Earlier watched Trump being flown away in the helicopter. He gave the marine a surprisingly smart salute. The marine had a face-mask on. I wonder if that pissed Trump off?

Biden just arriving at the Capitol now.

(Later) Best bits were 'Madam Vice-President', Lady Gaga doing their national anthem, and JB doing the oath. Imagine being in politics all your life, all those times going back and forth to Delaware on the train, and then finally getting to that point?

0700 8 Dark
1100 SHOWER

Am eating more sweet things than usual at the moment. Not like me at all.

0400 RAIN
0700 7
-> 8 OCCASIONAL DROPS OF RAIN
1400 Sun-through
2000 WINDY

0400 ~2 *
0600 8
1300 <8 some sun
Warmer

0700 FROST
Much sun
COLD

Snowed in the morning, so that my one-way storage trip had to be taken very carefully, as did the onward leg into town. But while I was there the snow turned to rain, and coming back was just annoying and horrible.

Am having to do everything very slowly and deliberately, and also find I'm even more easily distracted than usual. I still feel quite calm though, as I said before it could be pleasant. Very sleepy too, which is odd because I was in bed for 10 hours last night. The sleepiness and calm are the odd factors - if it weren't for them I'd think it was just a matter of too much alcohol. But too much alcohol makes me jumpy, not calm the next morning.

0700 SNOW
~0900 about ½" lying
-->RAIN

S's dad is in hospital with COVID. Slight improvement since yesterday, apparently. Worrying news about yet more mutant strains.

Good online video of one of the Trump insurrectionists 'requesting' a pardon for the president. She says 'I'm facing a prison sentence', with an expression and intonation that says 'The very idea!', but you can tell she thinks it's going to happen.

0800 8 medium Sc

It's been raining more or less continuously since about 9am yesterday. Got soaked and chilled when I went out, made a cup of tea when I got back like in the 'Tea - best drink of the day' ad, which was very effective: I saw it when I was a girl and I always make tea when I come in soaked.

Moving from real to metaphorical weather, felt less in the fog again. Made myself an avatar, a section of skyline and grey but promising sky.

These have been a good few days in personal development terms, I think there's been a healthy downsizing of my ego.

RAIN overnight
cont
8

Still felt sleepy, but perhaps not quite so much in the fog.

0600 8 FROST
0800 DROPS OF RAIN
--->1300 FINE RAIN
1800 cont

Spent all day trying to think of how to introduce myself on the new site - then someone posted a cloud photo and I immediately realised that two contrasting cloudage photos would tell the story well.

RAIN overnight
0600 8 RAIN
~0800 stops

0600 8
AM Some sun
Breezy

-3°C overnight
0600 8
1200 + some sun

Fine starry sky at 6 am, head of Draco very plain. And then a bright cold day.

M had a splendidly encouraging bit in the email he sent me today, about tearing apart the animal trap of neighbours, work and England and throwing it aside into the 'bracken of middle-age'.

0600 0 *
->Sun
HEAVY FROST
COLD

People on streets taking great care to keep 2m apart - walking into the road to pass each other, like in April. Weffolk cases have dropped back to 3500 - still very high, but below peak.

0700 8 MIST
HEAVY FROST
8 all day

Golden flood of light from westering sun in the afternoon, very encouraging.

Much sun
Cold

Noticeably lighter in the morning. Fine old half-moon seen through cloud-wrack as I came back from morning walk.

Incredible scenes from America this evening. At 6.30, I was distracted from my worries about the evil neighbours by Mitch 'no chin' McConnell giving a striking speech about how the 'stop the steal' stuff was all nonsense, and thinking 'This is how Hunter S Thompson must've felt watching the Watergate hearings', when suddenly it all spiralled out of control and Trump's neo-nazi supporters actually broke into the capitol and set about trashing the place, getting to the very door of the congress chamber. Imagine if they'd been Black Lives Matter people, theyld've been gunned down on the third Capitol step. Sterling stuff from al-Jazeera's frontwoman Patty Culhane.

Whatever would Louisa M. Alcott have thought?

RAIN overnight
0700 <8 Moon-through
Some sun later

Shutdown announced last night.

0700 SHOWERS
->
RAIN
Brighter at times
8
1930 RAIN cont

Some COVID deniers got slung out of the hospital for taking pictures of empty corridors to use in lying social media posts about supposedly empty hospitals.

SHOWERS & INTERMITTENT RAIN
Some sun

On going out noticed signs of dawn, I think for the first time at that hour (~7am).

0500 SHOWER
Clearing
Sun
Cold
More and longer SHOWERS after 1000

Been a while since I was out and about at Saturday lunchtime. Quite pleasant and sunny by then.

0700 8
->Bright cracks
->1300 ~5 Cu Sun
Cold

NEW YEAR'S DAY. Max temp yesterday was 1°C, hasn't been over 4°C for days, so house has got very cold.

There's a sort of cold clarity about New Year's Day that I like. That's particularly surprising considering I usually have a more or less bad headache to start the day with. Brendan Behan writes about how people in prison brisk up at New Year because some of them are now going out this year, or next year.

Took Christmas decorations down, for the last time here I hope. I won't be putting them back in the loft - they'll go into storage.

It's going to be a difficult start to the year - the coronavirus is running riot and vaccination has to catch up.

8 all day
Cold
(0930 MISTY)