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Before the shift started, reminded Paula that it's the first day of Lent - she's pledged to give up cakes, while I'm giving up chocolate again. A few minutes later, on my way from the coffee lounge back up to the TU, I met her in the corridor. She said wistfully that she's got loads of cakes at home, but said she'd give them to the kids. She wondered how we were both going to survive without chocolate and cakes respectively! "It's good for the soul," I observed, but she said she thought she'd got no chance of getting into heaven anyway...