Labour is gradually shifting course re Brexit. Not quite yet supporting staying within the existing EU agreement, Shadow Brexit Secretary, Sir Keir Starmer, announced on that being in a customs union was "the only way realistically to get tariff free access", "really important for our manufacturing base" - and the only way to avoid the return of a "hard border" in Northern Ireland. He is still talking about being in a new customs union AFTER Brexit, the half-way house that would give us all the benefits of the EU - apart from an ability to join in the decision making as we do now, and without the ability to do our own trade deals.
However, it is still a welcome change from the pipe-dream of the hardline Brexiteers of cutting all ties with the EU and somehow still having our cake and eating it.
Apparently this is the last sunny day before we are struck by the Siberian, ice cold winds, snow and possibly even Blizzards. Some commentators have warned that it will be colder than the Arctic in the UK without mentioning that this is because the Arctic is currently exceptionally warm with temperatures just below freezing. However the forecast for the North Pole is a return to -20 degC temperatures in the coming days.
The wind did feel icy on a short walk as far as the Fen Road Railway crossing, so we scurried back home and made an upside down sponge pudding with hot custard for tea. This evening, I began a looking at plant fibres in a common household item and too photo stacks and panorama pictures of one sample.
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