While the election hots up in Ghana, the weather is really cold in the United Kingdom.
The BBC World News for Africa reports that the Ghanaian Presidential Election Polls closed some five hours ago (at 1700 GMT) in the district of Tain. This is the last of Ghana's 230 constituencies to cast a vote. Tain could not vote in last week's run-off because of problems distributing the ballots. Soldiers and police were deployed across the district and the final result is not expected to be announced until tomorrow at the earliest. At the time of the BBC report the leading candidate was 23,000 votes ahead with Tain to be counted. The current president has called for calm.
You need a bit of calm, especially when driving on the UK roads at this time of year. It was -5 outside while I defrosted the car at 0700 GMT to set off on my trek to work, and the wind speed and rising sun caused the temperature to increase to -2 at one point; but it then dipped for the last hour of my journey to -7 degrees Celsius. That's the coldest I have ever seen on my car temperature gauge. So cold that I tip toed my way to work and stayed on those roads that looked as if they had been gritted with salt by the Council. With Christmas music playing, the car heater and my hat were both on throughout the journey. My mind a million miles away from the heat in Ghana. A long lingering heat, and one which is hotting up for two candidates as they come to terms with the final result, the appeals and the realisation for one of them that the dream is over.
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