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HAPPY NEW YEAR! I’ve  been thinking about first-footing, as doubtless you have. For a few years now I’ve called to mind one of Andrew Rudd’s wonderful poems at the outset of new year:

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God

doesn’t have to knock

uses the front door key

doesn’t check how clean the house is

knows how to use the kettle

and where the spoons go

washes up

is content to sit

and chat about issues

of no importance

or just be quiet