In a cosy hallway, a sable and white Shetland Sheepdog sits calmly on his own bed beside a white woman in her sixties with silver curls, who hands a handwritten note and the dog's lead to a smiling young white man with a backpack, the house sitter.

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The Note on the Fridge

Leave someone in charge of your house for a week and you write a note. The boiler needs a thump on the left side. The plants want water on Thursdays. The back door sticks. By the end it covers both sides of the page.

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