Well, we have five more years of 'that lot' but I awoke at 5.30 this morning and looked out of the window to this. The world is still turning, the garden is blooming and its good to be awake and alive. I am about to drive to the University of Winchester for an Open Day - one of my favourite jobs - I love greeting the prospective new students, catching their enthusiasm, their nervous anticipation and hopes, its one of the many joys of being a Prof. Have a great day! I bumped into this song yesterday, its been a while but I was thinking about Abbi, who is in Nashville in what is probably her last tennis tournament for Oklahoma. What a great place to play it out - and she won last night, though tonight will be a lot tougher. But that's ok too. This is a little heard song because radio stations play her hits, but I like it and it speaks about compassion and waiting; five more years is nothing as long as we nurture what matters in the meantime - the good people need to remember they didn't stop being good. Being unappreciated by others can't dent our spirit and we keep fighting. Irony is a curious thing sometimes but yesterday as we watched the election really come home the postman delivered my new Labour Party membership card. I am keeping it - that's a promise.
