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