Tag: domesticity
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A Domestic Dispute
All right, what have I done? Nothing. You haven’t spoken to me for half an hour – what have I done? Nothing. Don’t worry about it. Don’t worry about what? Nothing. But if you want to open the subject of your baked bean tin… Ah! My baked bean tin! Well, actually, it isn’t mine exclusively, […]
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Waste Disposal
“I think I asked you to put out the trash, didn’t I?” Amie asked. “I did, didn’t I?” “Amie, clearing the refuse isn’t time sensitive. I’ll do it after I’ve finished.” Malcolm, frowning with concentration, applied a wing strut to his model of the ‘Wright Flyer’. It was his sixth attempt. The glue wouldn’t let […]
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White Goods Counselling
This was a few years ago. Tony was a generous man of nearly my own age, not in the bloom of health perhaps, but still walking in the sun when he found a partner younger than he, slim and apparently self-confident with a willing smile; a paragon of something not quite within the powers of […]