ABSTRACT

Hope they don’t notice, and keep mum . . . or ring up straight away to advise a

cheque is being sent in the post?

Sam’s live-in partner has a taste in expensive nick-nacks – things like toasters

which burn an icon of the day’s weather on the toast, or solar-powered fountains for

the garden pond. The toaster is in the cupboard as it always burnt the middle of

the toast and under-did the rest, whilst the garden fountain clogged up after a day

and sank to the bottom of the pond.