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Why won't my cleaner leave me the Watchtower?

I'm not complaining, mind you – I get haikus instead

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

‘Hi I did Put it on It needed more’ is the pleasingly obscure haiku I find on my kitchen table.

It is from Denise, one of the most wonderful people I know. To give Denise a title — such as cleaner, cleaning lady, home help — would be disingenuous or even downright rude.

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