After I sent the to school and then I went to the shops. It was still early when I home. The were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the rang. Nothing could have been more I picked up the between two sticky fingers and was when I the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to her to ring back later. At last I hung up the What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the and on the I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a letter!