December and January: If you build it ...
“If you build it, he will come.” This line is a lift from Kevin Costner’s A Field of Dreams, where on seeing the ghost of a baseball legend he sets to work on turning his cornfield into a baseball field. People believe the farmer has gone cuckoo. Maybe the pesticides have gone to his head. Why would one risk financial ruin on an airy whim? Yet his wife has faith in him. Like Hollywood movies, the dream-seekers are vindicated. It does not end with Costner’s character stationed in a sanitarium, sectioned for hallucinations; rather it concludes with a flock of people coming to indeed watch a baseball game. When I said to my family I would build Kit a kitchen, they thought I too had gone mad. After all, they’re aware of my DIY past. A rap sheet of botched jobs and failed projects. A curriculum vitae that would be scrutinized and mauled by Lord Sugar’s henchmen.. My wife who is encumbered with me for life knew that I wanted to do this thing for my son, so instead of calling for a ...