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One could only wish.

It is my last workday this week...I'm off to pick up me mum from an airport Thursday, and take her home...then spend hopefully not all day Friday replacing her bathroom faucet, with much fear and trembling.

"What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"

Winston Churchill
House of Commons, June 18th, 1940

"The Battle of Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle-Earth is about to begin."

Gandalf
Near the end of TTT

...which afforded me yet another smile when I saw it the first time.