I have 57 posts in Drafts. Last night I had  96. They just seemed to grow and so I decided some pruning was in order. If they didn’t have titles I decided they weren’t worth keeping. Same for the ones with time sensitive titles. That still left me with a lot to open and check, though I may just wipe them without checking as it’s so much quicker. It’s just that I can’t escape the feeling I may be deleting a gem. Unlikely, but a worry all the same.

And that was how I came to find and use this post. It seemed good enough to complete, and it saved time. Maybe it’s good to look through old drafts.

Take the one labelled A Month of Months. It’s about all the different months we now have. We used to have 12 when I was a lad, including ones named after Roman Emperors. They seemed to have worked for a couple of thousand years, but we needed more, so we got Pizza Month, Black Cat Awareness Month, Mental Health Month, Family History Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, Computer Learning Month, Fair Trade Month, Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month and Cyber Security Awareness Month.

Some of them are serious things, and I’m sure the promotion is worthwhile. Others I’m not so sure about. These days you have to have a day, a week or a month to get your message across as, without one, your message will be lost. The trouble is that they start to lose their meaning when there are too many of them. And some just seem absurd.

Have a look at National Breakfast Week. I just plucked it out of thin air, but was amazed at what turned up. We have National School Breakfast Week, National Farmhouse Breakfast Week, National Breakfast Week, National Breakfast Day, National Big Breakfast Day, National Better Breakfast Day, English Breakfast Day . . .

Olympic Breakfast

I could go on, but I’m feeling ill. The picture that accompanies English Breakfast Day is not an English Breakfast. That “sausage” is a travesty for one thing.

After that, scroll down to see how many things share that day – twelve organisations share that day.

A final note – despite my comments on Roman Emperors, it seems they didn’t exist. I know this for a fact because someone on Tik Tok says so. Now I know why the average intelligence of the nation is going down the drain.