He would take me by the hands and spin me around like a tea cloth full of wet lettuce until I thought my arms would be wrenched from their sockets.

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There are mosquito nets and cloth nappies, tea, slippers and even a vegetable grater.

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The attendants will give you a cloth (resembling, in most establishments, an over-sized red gingham tea towel).

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