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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1960.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

The hidden significance in YOUR this house... It was designed HOME

GROUND FLOOR PLAN

1 Fuel store 2 Kilchen

4

Sitting area 5 Garage

drawn by Michael Rand

6 Entrance hall

7 Entrance court

& Toilet

e Statio

Terrace

Store

Good cooking begins with McDougall's

SELF-RAISING FLOUR

McDougall's

SELF-RAISING FLOUR

4 lb. NET

FOR MAKING DELICIOUS PASTRY, SCONES

CAKES, PANCAKES AND BORED PUDDINGS

EACH BACHES 1133)

McDougall Bro

WHEATSHEAF MILLE, MILLWALL, DOCKI, LONDON, E14

ME FOR M'DOUGALL'S

by a

woman

STRANGELY, THAT IS ALL TOO RARE A THING

INSIDE every woman there's an architect struggling to get out. Every time she buttiss to put up an ironing board in a kitchen that's just too small...every time she treks 10 yards to the dining-room with a loaded tray ... every time she bangs her clothes in the spare room because her bedroom's already crammed ... she thinks: "I could have done better myself." Such a woman is Mary Granelil....

"With an opea plan you avoid that of course.

"Upstairs, I've mado the landing deliberately big, so

can park an armchair there and

F

Where's Picky-Poo?

--Kar Searches High And Low For His Poodle-

By MAX TREL.

NARF the Shadow Bon

A with the Turned-About

sew. It's not really wasted Name, game runging out of the space, anyway, for a poky front door of the house, landing always makes a house look small.

a

"Picky-Pool" he colled.

"Picky, where are you?"

"Elcky! Picky!" Knart kept calling.

But Picky didn't answer.

Looked under fence

"Although I like an open plan, I draw the line at an open kit chen. My kitchen will have swing door that pushes either way and a sliding hatch that connects counter tops and Bt- ments in kitchen and dining- Then Knarf looked under the room."

fence that гал around The The house that Mary planned emply lot two houses away, will be very warm.

Pielty wasn't there. He wasn't "Electric underfloor heating in the empty lot. He wasn't all over the ground floor and behind the tree in front of the

an open fire on an inside wall candy store near the corner.

are basics," she says.

"What is really important is He. Picky-Poo, the Brown the insulation. All our big.Poodle, was anywhere to be floor-to-celling windows are seen at all. double glazed, the roof is sulated and for extra warmth

in-

01

T'hon the Maliman came

there is timber cladding out-down the block to deliver the

mail. side on the first floor,

The house storage space.

"I'm all in favour of built-pleaser"

because I can't

has masses "I can't find my Dog" said Knart. "Have you seen him,

by Anne Glidewell in London Aiments, partly

WHAT kind

of

2

We

trees-which wanted

& house."

house would woman build if she were

furniture.

so much moder

ward- "Things like built-in 1$ fine, because

rural robes for each bedroom should a really

be standard in every house, and as we've got so many books I'm floor-to-ceiling book-

The house that Mary planned

front and backt

What name?

"Your dog?" asked the Mail- man, "What is his name?"

said "Picky-Poo," He's brown all over."

Knarf,

Mali-

"Where have you been, you naughty DogTM* asked Knarf,

on the steps, wagging his tall, was Picky-Pool

Hugged him

First Knari sat down and

gave Picky-Poo a hug to show

that he loved him.

Then he looked Pleky straight in the eye and said sternly:

"Where have you been, ́ you naughty Dog?"

"Woof," said Picky.

"I don't understand what that woof means, sald Knari. "Where were you?”.

"I'm sorry," said the

But it was no use. No matter man. "I saw a white Dog, and what Kmart asked, Picky al- is honey-coloured Dog named

ways answered "Wood" "We have planned space for Cinnamon. But I didn't see any extra stores and fuel inside the brown Poodle name Picky-Poo. Knart didn't find out

given an entirely free is a patlo house with courtyards having hand?

"The back patio catches the allermicon sun, so we

cases.

all

are

house. I can't stand seeing

Fo

Bir building a marble-topped table dustbins and messy cunl sheds and Knort kept poking behind the time that he was missing.

To find out, I went to mingham to meet Mary there as a fixture,

"On a hot day we ke Grabelli, a young architect who, with her husband and partner, breakfast ir: the open too, so we has just won £1,000 in a can slide back the doors behind national housing competition our dining area, which, catches and designed a house for herself the morning sun," thal is dream class but budget price.

"We've had our plot of land --three-quarters of an are in

OPEN PLAN

The house hasn't

until Then the Mailman walked on later where Picky had been all

outside."

Under sofa and peering down ash-cans, The dream house will cost basements, and looking around He was in the living room, about £4,000, says Remo. Mary's Imp posts until he met Mr under the sofa, out of sight,

who was nibbling on a soup bone, husband. He has kept down the Peters, the Barber, cost by cutting out architects standing in the doorway of his fees and hiring direct labour barber shop.

rather than a contractor to do

the building work.

Mary insists: "Four thousand pounds is quite enough for a couple like us.

single 2 Hopwood, Worcestershire-for corridor.

"The mistake most people mansion; just

a year," Mary told me

"This isn' a millionaire's a rather nice

"It is a really rual site, with make where they're building a home that includes most of the * wonderful hedge bursting house is to waste the circulation this most people want." with hawthorn and crab-apple space," she says,

-(London Express Service).

"Is my Dog Picky-Poo in there?" asked Knarf.

Mr Peters smiled as he shook his head.

"I don't cut Poodle-hair. So I'm sure Picky-Poo Isn't in my barber shop."

Thes Knarf ran all the way home again, And there, sitting

"You should have asked me, my boy!" said Mr. Punch. "I raw him creeping under the sola with the bone, I knew where he was the whole time!"

win-

J

Alphense and Suzanne You should have asked us!" said Alphonse and Suzanne, the two Goldfish who lived in the aquarium infront of the dow, "We could see his tail sticking out. from behind the back of the sola, We knew where he was the whole time."

Knari shook his head, "Everybody knew where you were, Picky-Poo, except, me. I have yet to see a fresh bean 'The next time you crawl under soup bone, or a fresh pea in Moscow. And the sofa with a we queue for milk over here. please, please tell me! Prom- So you can see that shopping ise!"

""Wool," said Picky. for four young appetites my wife and I have an exciting and unpredictable time.

MOSCOW MARKET REPORT by Ross Mark

MY

Y eight-year-old son Christopher was scooting for the school bus the other morning when his mother braked him to a dead halt with a firm hand:

"Don't swing your school-bag like that," she warned. “It's full of straw- berries, remember."

Gastronom (food) section of farmers sell the food they pro- Moscow's big GUM department duce beyond their norm. shop,

It is fresher, generally better, ine order came the following more available, and much more day: Half a kilo of SUGAR (a expensive than in the Govem

Jb.) costs 3s. bit over

ment-run Gastronom,

more

Ten EGGS (they come in 10's Here we bought two over here) 63. ed. Four half- 24lb. chicks, but this time they litre (a little more than a pint) cost 28s a pair. bottles of MILK for 7s. Od.

APPLES were crossed out as unavailable.

Fourteen ORANGES Os. Od.

NOW

Delectable

to the

strawberry

for £1 business.

The sun-bronzed old ladies in navy blue shawls were doing boom business in strawberries 12s. 6d, a lb.

Two LEMONS for 5s, Six PORK CHOPS for 125, 2d, were crossed out again as non

To the delight of Chris and his young sisters, the task of feeding a family of six in Moscow has taken another of its est. queer twists.

In their place came a rather

At the moment it is cheaper stringy 2b, CHICKEN for the for me

to feed my children some price. strawberries than tomatoes:

Easier to buy strawberries for them than potatoes!

Tactics

Dearer IN working out the

above the prices I have used ourist rate of 28 roubles to the

I.

And to All out

our family fodder a mite, we toddled along

Next door, however, tomatoes were demanding nearly 26s. alb.

the

Everywhere In Moscow There is evidence of below-standard distribution tha Nikita Khrushchev han criticised recently,

Exciting

PLENTIFUL In the Central Market today are: Eggs,

greens, onions, cherries, salad

LET me tell you about big

family shopping over here, The Arst thing my wife Libby has found is that she has to to the Centralni Renuk (Central spring onions, radishes, flowers, plan her meals on a short-range Market).

tactical basis,

For instance. plunked in an

from pansies to petunias, car-

Here in an open square about rots, cauliflowers (7s, for a On Sunday we 400 yards from modern Gorky small one), cucumbers, butter, order to the Street the peasants and small and sour cream,

THE GAMBOLS .

TRAVELLING,

CAR, PETROL FISHING LICENCE

KIRE OF SMAT

BAIT

-(London Express Servica),

And for once Knart was al- mest sure he understood what "Woof" meant.

Rupert and the Squire-18

disappeared while 1. was reading my letters and..

Tcha

The Squine pauses when he reaches Rupert and the lady.

Well, well, another solemn Not to worry," says the Squire. looking meeting 1** he cres "Na need to search. He'll come heartily. Nothing else wrong back when he's hungry. You'll I hope Enough trouble already SCO So the lady turns doubt. with poor Mrs. Sheep, eh fully homeward. and, telling

"Oh. ir. what

it's my Rupert to keep a sharp look-out; Beppo." the lady quavers."He the Squite goes on his way,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

by Barry Appleby

COST OF

CLOTHES

RODS, LINDA

EVERYTIME WE CATCH A FISH GEORGE

IT COSTS £7-10

Packed in a tin to keep it safe and fresh

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And 'McDougall's, is always.

perfectly fresh because it is packed in a tin to keep the flour safe from damp and insects.

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