I’ve been doing some work on a medallion this afternoon, and getting absolutely nowhere. The more research I read, the more interested I became, and the slower the writing. It’s now taken me two days to write 300 words, and a hundred of them are lifted from something else I wrote on a similar subject. They aren’t exactly the same, but they only took ten minutes to adjust.

While I’m doing this, of course, I’m not able to write other things, which is annoying. Of course, I was born angry and have continued that way, so no matter what compromise I have to make, it will always be irksome.

We have elections tomorrow. (Actually, it has gone midnight, so we now have elections today). It has been billed as a fight between Reform and the Greens. These are both quite new parties and it is a surprise that they seem to be the top contenders. Traditionally the party in power does badly so Labour is in a slump and the Tories, after years spent being unable to tell what they want to do have landed at the bottom of the pile with no hope and no direction.

That leaves the Liberal Democrats, the eternal bridesmaids.

In Scotland and Wales there are other parties and elections, which I have no real knowledge of, and in Northern Ireland there are no elections this time round.

The choice for me is easy. I decided to start voting Green some years ago and I will keep voting for them. I’ve never had a great interest in politics and learned years ago that they are all pretty much the same. It’s not the party that I have the most confidence in, but the one which I dread least.

The bottom one is meant to be a mole.