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.

Monday, 12 June 2017

Laying Down New Rubber

I have been comparing two purchases made today - a pair of tyres that set me back £130 and a pair of slippers costing £22.50 - both put new rubber on the track but best value for money by far are the tyres, which should do at least twenty thousand miles, whereas my slippers tend to last only about six months and (on the basis that my shuffles around the house can’t be more than a mile a day) one hundred and eighty miles; doing the maths, that costs the tyres out at less than a penny a mile, the slippers come in at twelve and a half pence.

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