Wednesday 20th January 2021

Wednesday, and yet it feels like every other day to be honest.

With the weather being so grim so unable to go out and so stuff, even walking, and then at weekends there is lockdown, days are blurring into one another.

On top of that, work is on hold as we wait to hear of the plan going forward, or even if we are to be part of that plan.

So, I go to work as usual. Meaning, I log on at eight, and wait for seven or eight hours, taking calls at times, but all through Wednesday there wasn't one mail to react to.

But the main event of the day happening thousands of miles away in Washington DC, where Joe Biden was to be sworn in as the 46th President, usually this is a formality with much pomp and circumstance, but this year there was an expectation of more right wing riots and attempted attacks on The Capitol and state legislature buldings in all 50 States. Which is where the US under Trump ended up. EST is five hours behind UK, so the changeover should take place at five in the afternoon.

There is not much more to report, really.

We do the usual stuff; get up, get dressed, feed the cats, make coffee and check the interwebs.

Jools went for a walk, walking over the fields in the dark, I stay indside listening to another podcast, drinking a second coffee.

You know all this by now.



So, America wakes up at about midday, and the US Twitterers I follow start posting, hoping against hope there would be no trouble.



And in the end, there was nothing, no trouble.

I didn't watch the ceremony, but felt like it having multiple people live Tweet it for me. At ten to five, Biden was sworn in, but th atual handover was ten minutes later. The minute hand ticked round, and the world held its breath.

Nothing happened.

Twitter feeds canged; Kamala Devi Harris had hers changed to @VP, and there was a @firstgentleman for her husband, and of course, Biden took over @POTUS.

Then he got to work, starting to undo the chaos and evil of the last four years. He has a lot to do.

Dinner is courgetter fritters, as I have taken on the presidency of the Courgette Marketing Board as well as that for Aubergines. I can multitask.

Every time I make them, it is slightly different, and these are good, as I get the heat just right.

Straight after it is onto the sofa to watch Norwich play.

I only found out at four we were on Sky, so I was a few minutes late starting to watch due to eating dinner.

And City have taken Farkeball onto a new plain of football, with Bristol (Brizzl) City, chasing shadown for 90 minutes, it was astonishing, so much movement on and off the ball, pin point passing, and a routing 2-0 win. I still can't believe they are playing so well, and have kept winning through the second worse injury crisis in the club's history, and a large COVID outbreak in the squad.

And still six points clear at the top.