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Article: Fun, as per instructions
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- New Statesman
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- May 19, 2008
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I enjoy being bossed about by Martha Stewart, writes Annalisa Barbieri
Along the street where I live in London is a stall selling magazines that are marginally out of date. You can buy three for £2 and real bargains are to be had, especially if you choose international magazines that are usually about £5 a pop. It was here that I picked up my Martha Stewart Living magazine habit.
Within its pages I was gently bossed to do things such as "compile an inventory of all your dishes, you don't want to be caught out before the festive season" (this, just before Christmas) and to store these plates interleaved with felt squares to protect them, one from the other. Before Hallowe'en I was shown ...