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GETTING SHARPER

Once a year I collect all the knives from the kitchen and spend a day getting all of them sharp. Whenever I do this procedure, I am reminded of my friend Pete ‘The Knife’ Caulfield’s motto: “Everything sharpened except wit.”

s a callow youth I spent time in the freezing works where I learnt the importance of

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