I've been thinking about this for a while. Using social media threads increasingly doesn't cut it for me so now I think the time is right to start writing here.
The name comes from my dad. His parents kept a list of everything they owned of value and which of their six children it would be given to. Over the years, they added, reallocated, amended. The family lost patience.
Then long after the death of my grandfather, we were helping my granny move house. Clearing a cupboard, we found neatly folded bundles of old tea towels tied up with string. We asked her what they were for. "Well they're on the list," she said.
As my dad said,"the devil's in the tea towels."
The name comes from my dad. His parents kept a list of everything they owned of value and which of their six children it would be given to. Over the years, they added, reallocated, amended. The family lost patience.
Then long after the death of my grandfather, we were helping my granny move house. Clearing a cupboard, we found neatly folded bundles of old tea towels tied up with string. We asked her what they were for. "Well they're on the list," she said.
As my dad said,"the devil's in the tea towels."