Tuesday night, I was cuddled up in the detached office in the backyard at the Gills. I spent some time typing on the blog (never uploaded it) and chatting with Pippa about work and our jobs, then reading one of my paperback books. Finally I turned out the light and fell asleep right away, cuddled up under the down duvet. I awoke about 3 or 4 am needing to use the toilet and proceeded to try to unlock the door. The skeleton key worked easily when I locked it before going to bed, however, no matter how I turned, pulled or pushed I could NOT get the door unlocked. As you can imagine, while I didn’t have to pee very badly when I woke up, after 10 minutes of serious discussions with the key and lock
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