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Shortly after narrowly beating a nine-year-old girl at table tennis on Sunday (although I won 3-0, I only just won the final set, 12-10), I went to put my tracksuit bottoms back on, and when I pulled the lace to tie it, part of it snapped. One end was left inside the trousers, and I couldn’t manage to slide it to the opening. When I got home, I tried all sorts of implements to pull it round, but couldn’t do it. I considered opening up the seams to get to it, but then I decided it would be a better idea to pull the whole thing out, tie it to a rod (I handily had a long rod that had snapped off the clothes horse a few days earlier) and push it through. Big mistake!

Unfortunately at the seam where the left and right trouser join together the lace goes through a very small hole, too small to push through a rod with a lace tied in a knot around it. I then decided to open up some stitching so I could get my hand right near the part I couldn’t push the lace through, but I still couldn’t push it through.

I then saw a role of sellotape on my desk and had an idea. If I sellotaped the lace to the rod, there would be no need for a knot, and it might just push through the hole. After a lot of pushing, I managed to get the rod and lace through the hole and round the trouser to the other opening. Here’s how I did it:

Unfortunately I’ve made a right mess of some of the seams, and I’m going to have to sew it all back together now.

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