[00:00.49]After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops.
[00:06.78]It was still early when I returned home.
[00:10.34]The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet.
[00:16.30]So I decided to make some meat pies.
[00:20.10]In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry.
[00:29.28]At exactly that moment, the telephone rang.
[00:33.49]Nothing could have been more annoying.
[00:36.45]I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates.
[00:46.57]It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later.
[00:51.13]At last I hung up the receiver.
[00:54.31]What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs.
[01:03.49]I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead.
[01:10.76]This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!