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Eithne Shortall: Tending to household jobs in record time is not my forte

Ignore a task for long enough, and you’ll become blind to it – or, in my case, take half a decade to buy a turntable on which to play my extensive vinyl collection

Face the music: You need to have a record player to listen to your LPs. Picture: Getty/Tetra

The first time I moved out of home, I took eight large balls of wool with me. I lined them up on the tiny shelves of my tiny rental flat, where they took up about a fifth of the storage space. For months, visitors remarked on how they hadn’t known I was a knitter. Reader, I was not. There were eight balls of wool in that flat, but not a single knitting needle. I kept ...