Yes this looks like an ordinary, broken peg.

BUT it’s almost 40 years old! We bought a packet of these pegs when we set up our home-to-be before our wedding in January 1971.

And as we hung our washing on the line today, after doing all the washing from our NZ sailing trip, our peg basket contained many such pegs, smashed up during the storm of March 22nd. This was the saddest though – it almost made it’s 40th birthday, but not quite:-(

Something else from our past that’s finished…