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.

Sunday, 22 January 2017

Cradle to Craze

On the evening my son was born I returned home from hospital and constructed, to support his carrycot, a wooden stand, and in the intervening nineteen years the item has been successively adapted to be a TV/video unit in the snug, a printer stand in the study, a drinks table in the garden and latterly a shelf unit in the barn; today it made another comeback, as part of my wife’s furniture painting craze, as a multi-coloured sideboard in the utility room to hold clean clothes awaiting ironing (it is built to carry such substantial weight) and other laundry related items.

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