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Article: Send it to Sue; WHY I FELT SUCH A BASKET CASE!(Features)

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April 20, 1997
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Due to work, my daughter couldn't water her neighbours' hanging baskets when they went on holiday.

I took over. After a week of doing it, I dozed off on a bench in their garden.

I was woken up by someone shouting: "What on earth do you think you're doing?"

It turned out I'd been watering the baskets of my daughter's OTHER neighbour. The ones I should have been looking after were a dried- up mess! - Mrs G. Hedley, Wakefield, Yorkshire.

How dozy can you get?

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