(n) palimpsest: a manuscript (usually written on papyrus or parchment) on which more than one text has been written with the earlier writing incompletely erased and still visible.
Note that this only says usually papyrus or parchment.
Now the manuscript we are discussing here actually started life as a fairly ordinary floral pinny. Then it met Tim Leatherbarrow. His life was subsequently recorded on it in the form of stains, each one containing a fragment, a morsel, of the event which caused it. A sense of decency leaves me unable to comment on those relating to his first date, the time he gave birth to his first child and the ones which arose before he became potty-trained.
But some of them bear further scrutiny ... his first cartoon, his early gardening exploits, the day he first met Marigold Gloves (aaaah!), the first time he got involved in a fight at his local ...
So you understand the biographical, not to mention biological, importance of this pinny!
But now he tells me that it has escaped. Over to you, Tim, for the latest instalment of this sorry tale...Tim? Are you still there? Tim?
Erm ... normal service will be resumed as soon as possible.
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