Britain finally triggers Article 50 to leave the EU
For those of you who were here last June, I live-blogged referendum day.
It was exciting, it was nerve-racking, and even the gods understood because the night before we had a magnificent thunderstorm and so much rain that some polling stations were flooded and trenchant voters had to put on their wellington boots and wade through the floods to vote.
The vote seemed to stun the world - markets tanked all over the place. Who knew little Britain had this much effect on the world? And just for peacefully voting?
For a while it seemed like furious elites would stop Brexit. Law suits started flying, they did everything they could to try to overturn the result.
The only problem was that they had to go through Parliament - our dear old elected Parliament, which has sat continuously for 800 years and ensured we have never had a revolution, because they respond to the will of the people.
Of course Parliament wasn't going to block Brexit, what were those foreigners in the EU thinking when they imagined they would? "Out of the question, it would undermine our democracy," as one MP put it.
Instead the govt sat down and started planning how they would implement the instruction the voters had given it.
Our calm and reassuring Prime Minister Theresa May decided to wait till all the law-suits had exhausted themselves, and the bill to trigger Article 50 had sailed through parliament. She didn't want any shenaniggans while she was negotiating.
And now she is ready. Article 50 got triggered today, and Britain's thrilling adventure out of the EU's protectionist zone and into the big exciting world begins!