I checked out this link and it set me to thinking about winter tyres and all the recent debate about their use.
I began to ponder: where do you keep them during the summer? Come to that, where do you keep your ordinary ones during the winter?
In overcrowded SE England, we don't all have access to spacious garages or large garden sheds. Many of us live in multiple-car households with small rooms and minimal storage space. Two cars will produce eight "resting" tyres - what do you do with them?
Probably the result of too much seasonal imbibing but I've begun to wander round the house, contemplating which bits of furniture and equipment can be chucked out and replaced by a set of tyres.
I never
did like that coffee table; let's replace it with a sheet of plate glass balanced on four tyres.
Two tyres stacked vertically might become very trendy casual seating when covered with a decorative throw ....
This time of year, they can be swathed in laurel, holly and mistletoe to become very decorative wreaths.
If your joists are up to it, tyres might be hung at different heights in the children's bedrooms to encourage healthy physical activity during this inclement weather. If you do this, it would be thoughtful to warn the neighbours about the possibility of over-excited offspring crashing outwards through the bedroom windows and landing on their property.
Pass me that bottle of red and I'll think up some more uses in a moment ...
