The date for Article 50, starting the Brexit process, has been announced.
How dark these times feel, at least for the West. For Pakistan there were far darker days before this, but then at least there were bright uplands just out of sight, where others lived. Now a sludge engulfs the world, with much that is good feeling fragile.
I woke this morning having had a large number of emails overnight, knowing that I should rise early and deal with them. Then discovered that it was a dream, that there was only a single email to deal with. A difficulty of working across time zones.