And who would have dared predict that David Cameron would be out tonight celebrating councils and councillors gained - if, that is, he hadn't decreed that his party must not be seen to gloat.
Add a Hansberry symposium, which is to take place in one theater and then in the other on Saturday, and it's a wonder that January has not been decreed Lorraine Hansberry Month here.
By the end of the day, however, the presidential palace had not issued the decree.
If I had not published this decree, there would have been no possibility of control; and the Police would simply have acted at random.
If she had not intervened, the decree at the centre of the dispute would have lapsed at midnight and Italian homeowners would have been landed with a bill for €2.2bn.
The FA decreed she had not been properly registered and Arsenal were deducted three points.
But they could, if it hadn't presumably been decreed incorrect, light up.
Tonight, he declared that he had not received an official decree from Mr. Arafat ordering his dismissal.
The two women were pleased that the church had finally declared Mary's visits here to be real, but said that the decree had not really changed anything.
The head of the department responsible for NGOs at Egypt's ministry for social affairs, Ayman Abdelmawgud, claimed he had not heard of the decree.
