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.

Saturday, 7 November 2015

Beginnings

Attended our final campus open day today with a two hour drive to the University of Cumbria, small but perfectly formed on the edge of the compact city of Carlisle; the weather over the Pennines was foul but cleared up on the return trip sufficiently to permit a detour to Piercebridge to have an early evening meal in the George Hotel, a strangely disconcerting place to mull over at which institution the boy’s independent adult life will begin, a prospect that would have seemed impossibly remote when his parents got married in that very room eighteen and a half years previous.

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