“As suggested by Peter Miniutti (C8), my father, in his work downtime as a linotype operator, would wind rubber bands into a ball which grew increasingly large and heavy,” says Janice Creenaune of Austinmer. “So, as a secret destination, we took him to the ‘largest ball of twine built by one man’ when he visited us in Minnesota in 1998. It’s been immortalised in song by “Weird Al” Yankovic with the unsurprisingly titled The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota and in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous . My daughter, 16 at the time, reflected somewhat disdainfully, ‘We have seen everything now, we can go home’.…