Tuesday, January 20/2009

Lazing about in the morning as M&M drop in, so tea and J has an excuse for sweet biscuits and concocts a drambuie flavoured icing for the digestive biscuits in seconds.

BBC World provides hours of live coverage of Obama's inauguration and, along with a third of the world's population, we watch. For us the time is quite good as well. Ten a.m. in Washington is 5 p.m. in Cyprus, and between the hoopla and the hope of the new dispensation a good time to sit back and raise a glass of wine.