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.

Thursday, 12 January 2017

Quick Fix

A power failure this morning led to an impressive response from Northern Power, from my initial phone call which was responded to automatically – confirming my address and that the problem was known and being addressed, through a personalised call to inform me of progress and timescale, to the arrival in the field behind the house of three engineers in hi-viz jackets to shin up the pylon and fix the problem; my idea to acknowledge their speedy response with the offer of mugs of tea while they worked died in my head as I realised there was no means to boil the electric kettle.

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