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.

Friday, 14 July 2017

Bastille Day

Bastille day always guarantees a good stage on the Tour de France as the French riders vie for the headlines and TV exposure on the national holiday, and sure enough it was Frenchman Warren Barguil who headed a breakaway group of four over the finishing line; worth noting that if there had been another three in the group they would have matched the total inmate population of the Bastille the day it was stormed in 1789  - the building being more symbolic of royal oppression than an actual place of incarceration for revolutionaries.

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