At 6 o’clock last night while driving home from a conference last night I was well and truly into a routine. I have BBC Radio 4 on and waiting for the 6 O’Clock News to start, and then it happened.
I have heard it a thousand times before.
It’s always the same.
It isn’t even that remarkable.
The news started in the same way as it always has, and hopefully always will. It started with the chiming of Big Ben.
The chime is one of the few things I miss about the evening commute, perhaps that’s why I like it, because it does symbolise the evening commute. But I think that it’s perhaps more than that. It also symbolises that the world has survived through another day. It’s reassuringly dependable.
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