Mostly, it was because I wanted to be there and it started bringing a realisation that a year had passed.
It had the same addictive effect on me as Lipstick Traces, and brought home a realisation: that though serious music writing was born well away from the bookshelf, that's exactly where its future may lie.
It was a realisation that shook me to my core.
Elizabeth Pacitti, Edinburgh, Scotland: Finally, a realisation that body size does not dictate "happiness" or "beauty".
This series has not brought thrilling memories, just a realisation that Test cricket is not in sufficiently rude health to cope with a set of laws that stop it from thriving.
As Cruden finished the All Blacks' job with a 42-metre penalty on 71 minutes there was a realisation that one improving team had brought something like the best out of the other.
"He has a realisation that you've got to bring people together," he said.
But the feeling in their dressing room last night had to be one of enormous relief – and a realisation that a repeat of this sort of performance against better sides than the Dutch will bring only humiliation.
It's just a realisation that things don't disappear.
What redeems Peter, ultimately, is a realisation that he has behaved like an old fool.
