Anniversaries

Three anniversaries in a row. The obvious one yesterday and it was 5 years ago today that I came to Canada. That means Thursday was the fifth anniversary of packing work in.

Time has flown by. Surprising really since it was only ever work that made the time pass quickly. Well, I say only ever work but that's not quite accurate. Once upon a time the working week dragged and weekends raced by. In more recent years Monday to Friday sped up, while weekends slowed.a little.

Now it's just winter that passes slowly.

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In the last week the Moncton newspaper has printed a black and white photo with a caption informing its readers who was wearing brown and who wore blue; printed another photo with a caption identifying two people who were not in the photo - nobody was in the photo at all - and printed a headline to say that young people consumed 25% of the cigarettes they smoked. They meant to say that illegal cigarettes made up 25% of cigarettes they smoked. I found myself wondering if they consumed 25% what did they do with the 75%?