"It was precisely twelve o'clock; twelve by Big Ben; whose smoke was wafted over the northern part of London; blent with that of other clocks, mixed in a thin ethereal way with the clouds and wisps of smoke and died up there amongst the seagulls."

— Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

If I’d been on the ball I’d have posted this at twelve o’clock. That’s the last of them, anyway.