{"id":114766,"date":"2020-03-07T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tim-dowling-who-has-been-bothering-the-garden-centre-fish-not-us\/"},"modified":"2020-03-07T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-07T06:04:00","slug":"tim-dowling-who-has-been-bothering-the-garden-centre-fish-not-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tim-dowling-who-has-been-bothering-the-garden-centre-fish-not-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dowling: who has been bothering the garden centre fish? Not us"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThere\u2019s a wall of CCTV stills of men. The youngest one looks at me, eyes wide. \u2018What the hell did they do?\u2019It\u2019s haircut day, that quarterly standing appointment when the hairdressing twins Kelly and Hayley come to our kitchen to do my wife\u2019s highlights, and as many additional haircuts as there are heads. My wife still has a long morning ahead of sitting around in a foil helmet talking to Kelly and Hayley about coronavirus, but my hair is already cut and I\u2019ve got places to be.\u201cWhen I successfully replaced that rotten trellis last week,\u201d I begin. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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