It’s five years to the day since I left Blackwell, replaced by a machine. At the time, it was the end of an era, but there were already seeds of change. As I put it in my ‘friends only’ post that day: after seven years one of the favourite and perennial characters finally gets the girl. How can the writers end it there?
Well, the scriptwriters didn’t leave it there. They’d already started weaving in a new character and a new storyline, and as everyone now knows, with Emma, the series went from strength to strength. Some other characters returned on a regular basis, others have popped up in supporting roles, and others have been consigned to the bottom draw of the earlier series. Five years ago I didn’t know that I would now be married for almost three, and five years ago, the idea of Indy publishing the book written during those seven previous years, was not a serious proposition. Where I wonder will my life be taken in next five years?
Life is for living, and you never quite no what it has planned for you.
It’s bittersweet looking back, isn’t it? Five years ago today I’d just recently split up with Andrew. My posts for the day reveal I’d received £100 from Nana to spend in America, where I was going the next month. Would never have guessed then that I would subsequently live in Paris and now have a job in Oxford… and be engaged to someone at that point in time I’d only met twice!
I’m not that bittersweet is quite. I’m just always amazed how much can happen and yet how similar things are when you look back over milestones. Like the census meme thing last year.
About to get going on your chapter now … always makes me happy how your story has turned out 🙂