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What a Mess

After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school. My husband was at work and the house was _______. So I decided to make some meat _______. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon _______ with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying. I picked up the _______ between two sticky fingers and was upset when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten _______ to persuade her to ring back later. At last I _______ the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the _______, and on the doorknobs. I had no sooner got back to the _______ than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!