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That takes me back, when I was a kid (in Streatham) there was a guy who used to come to the house selling little tins of polish and stuff.


But then we also had paraffin deliveries (of both pink and blue paraffin :)), a baker with a wicker basket to carry bread and cakes from his van to the house, a milkman delivering proper sour-tasting yoghurt in glass pots, a vegetable man and - YES! - a rag and bone man ringing his bell, with a horse and cart.


My aunt used to rush out with a shovel to get the horse manure for her roses.


AAAARRRRGGGGGHHHH :))


History, innit :))

Hi


I bought one. I did not make it through the book as it was not my kind of read, but, I thought perhaps she would be good at writing for a teen audience as she had interesting character development...the writing needs a bit of help, but, she does certainly have something.


Anyway, good for self-initiative, and, she was a lovely woman.


xo, s

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