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.

Wednesday, 29 June 2016

Help the Aged

It being Wednesday, and being in need of some DIY gear, I along with other purveyors of the grey pound headed for B&Q to take advantage of their weekly over-60’s discount day; one wonders if the staffing that day is increased, not around the aisles where most of us know exactly what we want and where to find it, but at the self-service tills which for the day become assisted service, with fresh-faced youngsters of forty or fifty hovering, keen to intervene at the slightest hesitation with a bewildering display of touch-screen dexterity.

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