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.

Friday, 23 October 2015

Stop Cock

While putting out the recycling this morning I fortunately ran into one of the boys from the black stuff who was taking up the masking tape used to get a protect the kerbstones and manhole covers from the tarmac slurry applied yesterday, so I was able to enquire about my now buried stop cock; he reckoned it was already uncovered but I knew better and after indicating the general area where I had last seen it, he was able to locate and pull up some more masking and reveal the unobtrusive metal plate under which that vital valve resides.

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