Summary
THERE IS one of those immutable laws which decrees that, home alone and newly ensconced in the lav, someone will bang heavily on the front door - knocks which say "I'm not going away until you answer". Always been the same, of course, with old ladies selling tickets to a WI whist drive, a bloke to read the meter, or Jehovah's Witnesses handing over pictures of sunlit uplands where lions frolic with lambs.
In recent years, though, the person doing the rapping is most likely to be a weary-looking van driver with a clipboard asking directions to a place you can't recall and people you've never heard of. Always great fun to send them miles up a rutted track to a place where the dogs are vicious and the farmer trigger happy.See the full content of this document
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Obsessed with Things Online
Their visits tell me two things. First, that satellite navigation systems just don't work if you venture off major roads and out of the big cities, and second that more and more people are doing home shoppi...
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