Day 981

Yesterday'll be a date to remember to: Labour turned a -5,000 majority into a 20,000 one. A 29.12% swing to Labour, the biggest since the thirties. (If repeated nationally, Labour would have 612 MPs, the Tories 0 MPs). They never say how the swing is calculated, but I think it's the average of the change in percentage vote of the gainer and loser, ignoring sign (ie Labour were +30 points, Tories -28). It always used to be the Liberals who did that sort of thing.

Can we say watershed? Shall I say El Alamein again? Roll on The Day.

Having walked back from town yesterday, avoided going today: started work on a QBasic spreadsheet prog, to get me into the principles of sheets. Finished putting up the Christmas decorations. Baked the quiche for tomorrow: I was right to get free-range eggs, as T rang up in the afternoon to confirm tomorrow, and mentioned it inter alia. She mentioned some unpleasant magic a friend of hers had been subjected to (she reckoned).

Being something of a witch on her own account she said she'd directed some sort of magic for me to 'find some sort of energy' on the Solstice. I pointed out that that was the day I got sacked. She claimed it might've been for the better. Anyway, I can expect her about seven tomorrow.

In the evening, Harry Enfield.