The BBC’s “Seats Changed” map is wild. You can now walk from the coast of North Devon up to Bicester and then down to Eastbourne without ever leaving newly Lib Dem seats.
Tired: The Blue Wall
Wired: The YELLOW SNAKE
A list of eight cute animal rhymes to say farewell...
8. In a while, crocodile
7. Toodle-oo, kangaroo
6. Ciao for now, Jersey cow
5. Why you still here, white-tailed deer
4. Just piss off, luna moth
3. Go to hell, red gazelle
2. Kiss my hole, woodland vole
1. Off you fuck, crested duck
Heard near the Shin Osaka train station cab line probably only the fourth automobile horn total in about two weeks in the country, and the first one where someone really laid into it.
Have had a surprising amount of Starbucks since I was here, but yesterday the view was good and the air conditioning was better.
(And as this is definitely a tea country, Starbucks probably has the best coffee you'll find if you need your fix).
One unscientific observation today was that the traffic in Kyoto was worse than Tokyo.
But that may have just been the time of day, and the destinations the bus was travelling to and from.
