RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31005, 10 March 1966, Page 30

RANDOM REMINDER

ANY OLD IRONS?

Like to have a genuine, well-preserved autograph of Picasso? Or a secondbest meat mincer? Then watch out for the advertisments setting out details of a sale we propose to have to rid an already over-populated household of goods and chattels no longer desirable or necessary in the scheme of domestic tilings. The Picasso autograph was acquired by a member of the family when overseas some years ago. At that time Picasso meant much to her: now he 1b

back in the ruck with Wilson Whineray and Dirk Bogarde. So fashion changes. The meat mincer, however, could really be useful. It was in working order, at any rate, some years ago, but in recent times has done service merely as the wheel of an imaginary steamroller driven by a very young man. There will, at the sale, be a distinctive line in embossed chinaware, several containers for pot plants, and a dish-washing machine ideal for storing other unwanted goods.

And, sad to say, there if a dressmakers dummy with vital statistics no longer bearing much relation to those of its owner. You can have a carpet sweeper which, lacking the required powers of persuasion, has stood idle in one of the children’s bedrooms. A nice selection, too, of vegetable dishes from sets anything but intact. A birdcage perhaps? Any sort of offer will do. It will be wonderful to be rid of the stuff. It will leave all the room we need to start collecting again.