Tag: DIY
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Doctor Basu
“He’s at it again!” Muriel Hornbellows announced angrily. “Half past seven on Sunday morning! There’s no peace!” Burton Hornbellows groaned and pulled a pillow over his head. His wife’s obsession with their neighbour’s DIY activities was more irksome to him than the sound of hammering that vibrated through his bed frame. True, since Doctor…
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Grinding Doors
First let me say mine is a small, humble dwelling, though of infinite variety. If I further divulge that one source of variety is the incidence of different door designs I may provide a clue concerning my week’s activities, and possibly be drawn into admitting to one of the challenges of advancing age. Doors various…
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Salad Days
It is time to confess: I am seventy. I have reached the gates of Old Age. I was a novice of sixty-five when I first hung up my gloves and placed my favourite chair determinedly close to the hearth. That new dictum of ‘behaviour in retirement’ took time to learn. I had to understand that…
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