![]() World Smile Day has been celebrated on the first Friday in October since 1999. More relevant to us, it is also World Smile Day. It is also International Raccoon Appreciation Day, though celebrations of that are generally muted in New Zealand, possibly due to the lack of raccoons in need of appreciation. It is also the first day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But that's just the froth on the proverbial cappuccino. If you need an excuse to drink coffee, this is it. It is, for instance, International Coffee Day. Now it's October 1, which is a surprisingly prestigious day, though as Michael Caine would say, not a lot of people know that. If the year seems shorter perhaps it's because there is less to look back on. The year has passed quickly because it's been kind of a blank: fewer concerts, fewer meals out, fewer sporting contests, just less of everything really. ![]() ![]() I put it down to the things we haven't been able to do. ![]() It always seems at around this point that the year has rushed by, and this year the feeling is particularly intense. Today's paper arrives on the first day of October three quarters of the year has passed. ![]()
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