I didn’t get up to much yesterday: it was quite a relaxed day trundling around south-east London, telling street preachers to be quiet. I did notice something which I think it’s worth noting. Watching one of the news bulletins, for the first time I heard someone give the year as ‘Twenty-three’ rather than ‘Twenty-twenty-three’. That caught my ear somewhat: When I was growing up in the nineties, I remember people always giving the date as ‘ninety-five’ or ‘ninety-eight, and forgetting to say the ‘nineteen’ before it. Since the turn of the millennium though, they have always seemed to say the year in full. It just struck me as noteworthy that the societal habit of just saying the last part of the year is starting again, as though we have all now become so used to the century that we can take it as read again. Has anyone else noticed this?