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“This is exactly how I felt when we unearthed a sultana’s hidden diadem too...”

Aware that sultanas can be extremely poisonous to dogs, Laura called her vet straight away, who asked her to come into the surgery.

“Those are not currants or sultanas or raisins in the scones,” he said when he handed me the bag.

Entering from the south, an alleyway of stalls selling sultanas, ersatz fashion and caged songbirds gave onto an arcade of butchers’ shops.

We were actually doing all the currants that Tesco sold in their supermarkets - every packet was made by us: mixed fruit and sultanas.