Although it had a pattern, crumbs on the carpet weren't wanted. We were obliged to kneel and eat cream crackers with butter and Gouda with a white plate with our heads inside the sideboard. This was a treat because there was room for four, and in the luminous gloom we whispered jokes, so that when laughter rose, showers of buttery spitty crumbs flew from our mouths like starlings and lodged against the aromatic mahogany - second magnitude stars. If somebody choked, you got quite big bits.
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Although it had a pattern, crumbs on the carpet weren't wanted. We were obliged to kneel and eat cream crackers with butter and Gouda with a white plate with our heads inside the sideboard. This was a treat because there was room for four, and in the luminous gloom we whispered jokes, so that when laughter rose, showers of buttery spitty crumbs flew from our mouths like starlings and lodged against the aromatic mahogany - second magnitude stars. If somebody choked, you got quite big bits.