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About 15 years ago I lived in the suburbs of Sydney with the typical wooden 6ft picket fence surrounding each yard. My neighbour (married and 10 years older than me) used to hang her washing out each morning about 8.00am and take it off the line about 3.30pm. I was working shift work for many years and also took on a distance education university study so I would generally sit on a banana chair under a lemon tree out the back yard to study. After a while I noticed the regime that “Mary” would take each