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, 20 July 2015

Last Car, First Car

My dad is eighty-nine with a gammy leg and a twelve year-old Ford Fiesta that he can no longer drive, and my son is seventeen, learning to drive and more keen to practice in my car than I am willing to risk, so one solution, happily embraced by both parties, was to transfer the said Fiesta across a couple of generations, so today the boy and I took the train down to Manchester and my dad handed his last car over to be his grandson’s first; my role (middle man in more ways than one) was to arrange the tax and insurance, do the necessary DVLC paperwork, bump start the flat-batteried vehicle, and do the two hour drive back home. 

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