While the ladies chill out in the kitchen
The men are hard at work in the garden
Then a well-earned bath once everything is dug up and the contents of the sandpit liberally scattered round the universe as we presently know it.
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Oh, this was just the lid. The other half had already gone in the car. A rhubarb forcer. Very beautiful, and we liked it a lot – but nowadays rhubarb is too acidic for me and the amount of sugar it requires beyond what my system copes with easily – so it went with love to another member of the family who likes to grow rhubarb.