So the story goes...
Olaf was going on the Viking invasion of England, and like any good Viking warrior he asked his wife if she wanted anything bringing back.
"Well," she says, "If you go anywhere near Sheffield, can you bring back something made of that stainless steel? I hear it's really good, and I'd like some new knives and forks. Oh, and your Grannie, she could do with a new draining board."
"OK, I'll see what I can do." And off he goes on his way to rape and pillage in the green and pleasant land of England.
Well, after a couple of week he finds his way to Sheffield, and unfortunately the steel industry has collapsed, and all the factories and foundries are being turned into shopping centres, and all the knives in the shops are cheap Chinese imports, so he gets his misses some lace curtains instead. So he's looking all over the place for something interesting to take his Grannie and he's thinking about building a new house for her, because he's got loads of gold and treasure that he's pillaged, and he notices the builders building the shopping centres. After watching them for a while, he notices they all carry hundreds of bricks around, up their ladders, on their hods, and he thinks that one of them would be handy when he builds his house. So he goes to Dewson's and pinches one and hides it with all the rest of his plunder and goes back to his hometown in Vikingland
Well, when he gets home, his wife asked him what he got for her, and he gives her the lace curtains, and she's really happy with them. Then she tells him that his granny had a stroke while he was away. "That's too bad," he says, "And anyway I couldn't get her a draining board, but I'm going to build a new house for her." But his wife says that since she had the stoke, she can't do anything for herself, she can't walk or even eat by herself, and her eyes have gone, and Grannie will come and live with them so he doesn't need to build a new house for her.
"Give her that thing what you got in Sheffield," she says, "It's the thought that counts. And anyway, a hod's as good as a sink to a blind Norse..."