Present(s) for Review
In 1989 we visited New York for the first time staying with friends and taking a couple of tours to the hinterland. In those days it was possible to take enough kit on a plane with you to go camping, although we had ordered a new tent from L L Bean to be delivered to our friend's apartment. So we packed our rental car and headed off to the South. As we went down the New Jersey Turnpike we started thinking about the things we had forgotten including a hammer and cutlery. Fortunately this coincided with turning off the 12-lane and seeing an army surplus store which supplied our needs. This included a serrated knife which was claimed would last forever and cut anything. Perhaps not forever but 34 years later the knife was still cutting away finely, until the blade separated from the handle. Bugger. I decided that a replacement knife would be a nice Christmas present for Frances, to accompany the glass vase she suggested. Both were...