[Takes a deep bow and waits for thunderous applause to subside]
I guess it may be customary for nominees to say how surprised they are and that they would never have thought this possible, but when I say so – and I do – I really mean it. I have been on these boards for less than two months, after a lurking period of no more than a week. I don’t yet know many AARs and writAARs, and I am known to few myself, and even though I have been updating my AAR regularily, I haven’t yet written all that much. Consequently, this does really come as a huge and unguessed-at surprise.
And as a great honour. From what little reading I have done out there in AARland, I know that there are a great many very talented writAARs assembled on this board, many more than I have yet gotten around to sample. In view of them, I am humbled by the choice.
Thank you very much, Estonianzulu, and a thank you to all felicitators, and thanks to all of you who keep reading and commenting. You make doing this worthwhile, and without you, there’d be no “Furor Normannicus”.
Thank you.