Waves

World Meteorological Day celebrates the ocean, our climate and weather. We’ll follow the ocean theme today by involving waves. 

Talking of waves, this third wave of the Pandemic was highlighted in the Downing Street Press Conference tonight when topics included:

• Both the prime ministers and his senior advisers made reference to the third wave.
• Britain does not believe in blockading vaccines or vaccine materials
• Britain is reportedly willing to consider sharing Dutch-made doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
• Professor Chris Whitty: “Every single one of the vaccines we have available depends on science from multiple countries, for its intellectual origins — for its immediate, recent development and in almost all cases for its manufacturing distribution. It is absolutely essential that we see this as an international problem, and scientists collaborate the whole time.”
• “And cautiously but irreversibly, step by step, jab by jab, this country is on the path to reclaiming our freedoms.” 

As an aside, I’ve never heard the word …um… repeated so many times. Guess from whom?

And what freedoms? Mask wearing? Social distancing? Fines for foreign holidays? I think that the Prime Minister’s words are just so much hot air as he’s trying to not give the bad news that will inevitably be coming. In terms of the number of cases, the seven day moving average has been slowly increasing for the past four days. That’s not in the right direction.

Today has been reviewing the candidate video presentations for potential new staff members. There were three of us doing this reviewing each presentation. We, gender diverse, whose ethnic origins are all from different continents, independently decided on the top three candidates, also gender diverse, who are all from different continents, but not the same as the ones previously mentioned. I call that a result.

Tomorrow there’s a departmental meeting. Then teaching. Then probably putting potatoes into a nuclear reactor.

Fission chips, if you don’t know that very old joke.

Continuing with the theme, Waves by Sandy, 2018, Jangye Ryn, Gunwalloe, Cornwall. I’ve used this as the cover to my Excel book.

Music:

Something about the sea today, waves specifically

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958), A Sea Symphony, 3. “The Waves” (Allegro brillante), London Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, Bernard Haitink

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