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.

Monday, 5 May 2014

Daisy Cutter

Not the sweetly-hit (and in my case rarely-hit) football shot that skims an inch over the turf to nestle in the corner of the goal net, this daisy cutter is an old but brutally effective Fly-Mo that not so much cuts as masticates the grass and daisies, half of which go into the grass box while the other half compacts itself to the underside of the Fly-Mo, transforming it into more of a Drag-Mo, until it is scraped off at each emptying of the clippings; twenty such tippings later the job was done, front and back – a good bank holiday Monday’s work, allowing me to retire to watch the snooker final with a clear conscience.

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