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22/11/2017

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A  propos of nothing, really, a beautiful painting, the sitter dignified but cautious.

The Maid - George Lambert, 1915
The Art Gallery of New South Wales
 
                    
When you are under my roof, I will look after you and I know you'll help me when I ask, and ask I will.  
But when friends move a used coffee cup to the kitchen or rummage in my kitchen drawers for a melamine serving spoon when I had every intention of using the Henning Koppel or ask to help with the dishes at midnight after a dinner, I'm dealing either with misplaced bossiness or misplaced guilt. 


The Spectator is not a mag I regularly read (I’m an old leftie) but one might nearly say that the Dear Mary column comes up with enough good ideas to warrant a subscription.
She suggests saying, as you usher friends out the door, 
"Oh please, leave it, it's fine.  We have a lovely old couple who come by in the morning."

(And we'll get up on the morrow, when we can, have a cup of tea or two, a massive glass of water and start - loving the opportunity to relive the evening, pick at the wilted salad, and finish off the chocolates.)



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