(N) In the supermarket, Paula had found a prospectus for a college that was running a one-day bread-making course one Saturday in the very near future. It was already booked up, with 2 on the reserve list, but suddenly there were enough cancellations to enable me to get a place, as a present from Paula. So I spent Saturday 24th May in the company of 10 women and 1 other bloke (whose wife, also in attendance, had bought him the course as a birthday gift), and we baked multi-seed loaves, cheese twists, herb rolls and pumpkin bread. Paula opted for a course on web-page design at the same location, so watch this space for her future creations. (If I was writing a post-modern piece, I might have commented further on this interesting reversal of gender-stereotyping. Instead
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