[00:01.080]--- Lesson 54 Sticky fingers
[00:07.120]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:12.960]--- What two interruptions did the writer have?
[00:19.800]After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops.
[00:26.960]It was still early when I returned home.
[00:31.240]The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet.
[00:37.800]So I decided to make some meat pies.
[00:42.440]In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry.
[00:52.360]At exactly that moment, the telephone rang.
[00:56.880]Nothing could have been more annoying.
[01:00.440]I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates.
[01:10.800]It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later.
[01:15.640]At last I hung up the receiver.
[01:18.680]What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs.
[01:27.640]I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead.
[01:35.080]This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!
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