March 7th......yes, that was yesterday, but it's one of those days that one can only really appreciate when it's passed. On the day itself, so many things are happening, so many occasions need celebrating, that one can only truly appreciate it's beauty 24 hours later. I mean really, what's March 8th? The 8th is one of those days that calendar makers added as an afterthought, eager to hit the sack after painting the town red the night before.

Historical documents show that throughout time, momentous occasions have been reorganised to take advantage of the luck and good fortune associated with the 7th of March. In 1962 the Beatles originally planned to make their first BBC broadcast on March 3rd, but a forward-thinking sound engineer advised them to have patience, wisely pointing out that the 7th, entirely more appropriate for the occasion, was just around the corner. Fifteen years later, did Israli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meet with Jimmy Carter for the first time on March 8th, the mutually agreed upon date? Who of the two saw the light first remains a State Secret, but an examination of the record indicates they did the smart thing and moved the shindig up a day. And in perhaps the most impressive piece of schedule-shuffling, a total eclipse of the sun, which for centuries had been fortold to occur on April 20th, 1989 bent to the will of the People and sped things up considerably, performing its magic on March 7th.Of course, I celebrate it for an altogether more personal reason. It's Craig's birthday! Suzanne and I wish you all best, and we're really looking forward to seeing you very soon. I dont know if you got to see these pictures or not, but Andrea took them at Christmas '04, and we like them. We hope everything is going well in Newmarket, and that the kettle is in fine working order...HAPPY BIRTHDAY !!