Today (and I’m sure I’m right this time, uncharacteristically) is 22/2/22. Or better still: 22.02.2022. Which not only reads the same backwards (palindromic) but also… (drum roll)… upside down!!! (Ambigramic?) Holy moly! When does that ever happen. You can turn this entire day on its head and it would look the same. Nothing would fall down. Such is the power of numbers.

Making it the perfect day to fabricate reasons to invade Ukraine. As Putin will probably do at some point, possibly at 2.22 this afternoon. And 22 seconds. Or 22 2nds. He’s making ‘noises’. Which were anticipated and expected. He’s complaining about Ukraine attacking his people, in the partisan Russian regions of Ukraine. He’s now declared those regions ‘Russia’. Leaving just the rest of the country to be invaded and overthrown. And no amount of diplomacy will alter his course. He’s ‘defending Russians’. Like always. Even though a lot of them tend to die in their defence.

And its the perfect day to announce that ‘coronavirus is finished’… as a viable killing disease which we must all hide from, shelter from, protect ourselves from, run away from, stop work, close the country, suspend all normality for 2 years and/or die from! Yeah, we’re done with it. Boris said so. Back to work you lazy, pyjama-wearing, lap-top on the duvet-ing, unwashed lightweights. All measures are now null and void. You’re allowed within 2 metres of people once more. In fact you’re encouraged to bump into people to rekindle that proximity, hug them, assault them, all without wearing a mask.

Interestingly, I started this little piece at about 7.30 this morning, then life just kind’a got in the way. But I’m keen it emerges into the world whilst its still 22.02.2022, though I could have posted it Thursday and added ‘+2’ but it wouldn’t be right. Though in fact Putin has at this point sent his tanks into Eastern Ukraine. How life changes in a few hours. Do any world leader really have the bottle to stop him? Boris with his Churchill aspirations? Biden with… not a lot? The new German dude who is about a quarter the ‘man’ that Angela Merkel was? Or Macron. Who’s probably already moved to Switzerland. Just in case.

Happy belated 22.02.2022

A xxxx