morning coffee

grey sky grey air grey light. still the sky is high. a skateboarder coasts down the Davie hill when he should be careening.

The Ukrainian presidential election dominates the news. Viktor Yanukovich came out the winner, but by all accounts, there was substantial voting fraud. The opposition party leader Viktor Yushchenko is holding fast, and protestors turn the streets of Kiev into multi-coloured rivers. To date: no violence. I am not at all clear what the political differences are in the two parties