For the whole 45 years of my educational career, I learn very quickly that no day is typical that no day is like any other and that no day is like the one that went before. I learned to expect the unexpected: that one always had to be on guard and at least aware that what was planned may not come to pass. I don’t believe during my professional career that I ever thought of any day as being 100% predictable.

Beyond my years at work and now well into retirement, I would not describe today or any other day as ‘typical’. Today the irrigation system at our place was on the blink and we had to get our plumber in to carry out rectification work. Something comes up on most days that wipes our the ‘typical’ component.

The days they come and the days they go. Each is a 24-hour period in its own right, Bur ‘typical’ does not seem to fit today or for that matter, any other day.