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.

Tuesday, 31 December 2013

New Year’s Eve

New Year’s Eve started with the belated exchange of Christmas presents with the daughters, including the receipt of camel hair socks and yak wool leggings from Mongolia and equally acceptable if more conventional clothing from Nottingham; the evening was devoted to a murder mystery game over a three course dinner for which younger daughter and partner prepared a starter of skewered chicken satay, my wife and I cooked a couple of curries for the main, and elder daughter and son whipped up a chocolate and hazelnut tart for dessert - and as for the murder, who did it or guessed it right were less important than the vamped up costumes and the variable accents.

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