Introduction


Can each day be headlined by a word (or two) and represented by a single sentence?

Will they, in turn, weave together to form a tapestry of the year?

It may be more mundane than momentous, but it’s mine to share.

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Track Star


What should have been a normal Wednesday night – me at the gym and the boy at athletics training – had a pleasant dénouement when, as I began driving home, he came out with an expletive and “I’ve forgotten my trophy”, requiring a quick circle back to the sports centre; sure enough he re-emerged grasping the handsome Boys Track Performance of the Year Cup, awarded in arrears as, after years of attending presentation nights and applauding other people’s children, we unavoidably missed Saturday’s ceremony when he actually won something.

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