These words, so the story goes, were the first uttered on BBC television when transmissions resumed after the second world war. And today, 1,099 days since we last experienced a ‘normal’ A level results day, we too have a moment of resumption. Sadly, that BBC story is just a triumph of apocryphal storytelling, and the actual words Jasmine Bligh spoke on that day were ‘Good afternoon, everybody. How are you? Do you remember me?’ - which to be fair does have its own charm. Today has elements of both the myth and the reality of that moment. COVID was (to say the least) a rude interruption, and a great disruptor of our normal routines and practices. There is a chance also that we don’t ‘remember’ results day, and need to re-learn the appropriate responses to what we find.
