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Meeting
After the workmen got back to their pseudo-digging, which, via Emily’s instructions, now included ‘as many coffee and mince pie breaks as you can handle,’ Emily found herself with an hour to spare before the meeting started.
Needing a break, she retrieved her laptop and went online, at first putting in place a few things for the upcoming carnival including an advertising spot reserved in tomorrow’s local paper—which she could cancel if the group decided the carnival was too big a risk—and a couple of emails to old contacts of her grandmother’s. One was a company which specialised in industrial-sized tents used for wedding parties and fetes, another a company which provided PA systems.
Emails sent, she still had half an hour before she had to go, so had an idle around on soci
