Anniversaries

Yesterday was designated as 'a day of reflection' as we reached the 5th anniversary of the pandemic. You will get the hint of how involved I was in all that when I tell you that I didn't even realise it was happening until 4pm TODAY when someone mentioned it in the office.
Why did they pick 9th March anyway? First reported UK case? First death? First announcement about restrictions? Just an arbitrary date they decided upon cos it was a Sunday and people had less to do anyway?
I really have no idea and I'm not ashamed or embarrassed to have missed it.
I wouldn't want to look back on it, anyway. I think we're still stuck in the aftermath of it, no matter how much we try to pretend it's all in the past, so we should be coping with what we're coping with, not casting a rueful glance 'back' as if it was a distant memory.
I will say one thing about that good old pesky virus thing, though - I do think some of my best blog posts happened in those Spring days of 2020.

On a more personally important note, today it is exactly 17 years since I first posted something in the blogsphere. Monday 10th March 2008. It was entitled 'Opening Gambit' and it is still there in all its glory, if you'd wish to go back and see where it all started.

17 years ago today.
That really is quite overwhelming.

RC 10-3-25