continually amazed at just how many skills and crafts could go into making "a lovely home"-the patchwork quilts you could sew, the curtains you could ruffle, the cucumbers you could pickle, the rhubarb you could make into jam, the icing-sugar decorations you could create for your Christmas cake-which you were supposed to make in September at the latest {for heaven's sake}-and at the same time remember to plant your indoor bulbs so they would also be ready for "the festive season," and it just went on and on, every month a list of tasks that would have defeated Hercules and that was without the everyday preparation of meals,
( Kate Atkinson )
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