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I’m supposed to give Sorcha moral support at the bank, but I didn’t know that meant, like, hitting on the bank bird?

SORCHA RANG and said she realised it was time she took her head out of the sand. With that shop of hers about to tango uniform in a ditch, she needed to do something – and, by something, she didn’tmean answering the phone in, like, an African accent, going, “No Surka Lala here,” whenever the bank rang, which had been her approach to the whole current economic blahdy blah up until that point. No, she decided that she was going to front up to the problem and go and actually meet them, which was pretty brave of her, you’d have to say.