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I must have made my desk around a quarter after nine,
With letters to be read
And heaps of papers waiting to be signed.
I must have gone to lunch at half past twelve or so,
The usual place, the usual bunch,
And still on top of this, I'm pretty sure, it must have rained
The day before you came.
I must have lit my seventh cigarette at half past two
And at that time I never even noticed I was blue,
I must have kept on dragging through the business of the day
Without even knowing anything,
I hid a part of me away;
At five I must have left, there's no exception to the rule,
A matter of routine — I've done it ever since
I've finished school.
A train back home again —
Undoubtedly I must have read the evening paper then.
Oh, yes, I'm sure my life was well within it's usual frame
The day before you came
I must have opened my front door at eight o'clock or so
And stopped along the way to buy some Chinese food to go.
I'm sure I had my dinner watching something on TV —
There's not, I think, a single episode of Dallas that
I did not see. I must have gone to bed around a quarter after ten:
I need a lot of sleep and so I like to be in bed by then;
I must have read a while the latest one by Marilyn French
Or something in that style,
It's funny, but I had no sense of living without aim
The day before you came.
And turning out the light I must have yawned
And snuggled up for yet another night,
And rattling on the roof
I must have heard the sound of rain
The day before you came.
(A Song by ABBA)
DOMESTIC CHORES
Text 1
Dishwashers
Over the last fifty years housework has been made considerably easier by the invention of an increasing
number of labour-saving devices and appliances, mostly electrical, which have drastically cut down the
amount of time and effort previously needed to do the everyday household chores. For many years now there
have been vacuum cleaners, electric irons, washing machines and floor-polishers; now we have electric
potato-peelers and even electric carving knives. We can buy cookers that will switch themselves on and
produce a meal that is ready to eat the minute we-get back home. If we have one of those electric pop-up
toasters, we can make toast at the breakfast table itself. Mashed potatoes can be quickly and effortlessly
made with a mixer, which usually has a variety of attachments that enable you to make all sorts of other
more exotic things like fresh orange juice or real mayonnaise. And a tumble-drier can save you from the
frustration of hanging out the washing only to have to bring it in again ten minutes later when menacing
storm-clouds loom over.
Probably the most important piece of electrical equipment to become widely used in the last twenty years
is the dishwasher. Washing up by hand is not only a time-consuming task (it can take longer than eating the
meal itself), but also an extremely boring one, particularly when you are on your own, and it also ruins your
hands. Dishwashers come in a range of different sizes and models to suit your purse, the size of your family,
and the layout of the kitchen. They can be stood on the floor or on a worktop, or they can be mounted on a
wall. And their capacity ranges from six to twelve place-settings. If you buy one, it is worth having it