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.

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Straight Kinda Guy

The purchase of a new pair of jeans was pretty straightforward when they were all uniformly blue and the only issue was size and whether to get Wranglers or Levis; now there are more brands than enough, fifteen shades of blue (plus black), and even in a down to earth shop like Matalan there is a choice of something called “fit” - the options being regular, bootleg, straight, slim, skinny and twisted (thankfully none had ready-made tears in them, which I can arrange myself given time and a DIY disaster); I rejected four outright (bootleg on grounds of it no longer being 1970, skinny on the basis of time and effort needed to get them on, regular as lacking in imagination, and twisted as being meaningless to me), then tried on slim but found them a little clingy, so eventually had to settle for straight.

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