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Unwanted Visitor
She hadn’t planned to use the holiday let as a cooking factory, so she went over to Peter’s shop and stocked up on what she could, before jumping in the car and heading to the nearest supermarket to pick up what she couldn’t. When she returned in late afternoon, her car was laden with baking trays, bags of flour and sugar, butter, spices, and tins of dried fruit and nuts.
With only a pause to find a station playing Christmas songs on the old radio, she got straight to work, turning the kitchen into a production line of cakes, tarts, and biscuits. By the time she looked up to find that the sun had set and night had fallen, several airing trays were piled high with mince pies, Eccles cakes, treacle tarts, sponge cakes, and caramel shortcakes. Elaine, as her strength an
