“What mess?”
“All this dust and your office is very untidy...”
“Yes all right dear... I’ll try to stop shedding so much skin and making so much dust, but there is nothing that I can do about the office or my desk. I need all these things to be where they are. So do what you like out there in the rest of the house and in the garden, but leave the office alone. I’m sure that Ayr will forgive me or you can just tell her that I’m an untidy falang.”
Lek knew that that was all the help that she would get from Craig, so she phoned the thirty yards to her mother’s house to enrol Soom’s assistance in the big clean-up.
They started inside and thankfully left the office until last. Craig used the opportunity to have a shower and he noticed that it and the kitchen were gleaming in a way that he ha
