Many years ago, we shared a backyard with a gorgeous older Greek lady, Rachil, who - at the beginning of every December – would set to work cleaning every surface, weeding the garden, washing and shaking out all the bed clothes and house linens for hours on end, and generally working herself to the bone in socks and sandals with a fag in her mouth, some…
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