1960-08-27 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1980.

PRACTICAL HOMECRAFT

T-T takes a simple line

TF the door of a

In

mews cottage Kensington slowly opens "and small puff 'of blue smoke emer- ges, followed by n cheroot. followed by

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good & inches of carved holder, it is all in- evitably leading up to something interesting.

Ju this caso it led to the suave countenance of Mr Terry-Thomas.

and

Sipping his gia tonic, Mr

Thomas Ianquidly

surveyed his hume.

AT HOME

Today

visits

Terry- Thomas

I comumentod on the extreme simpli city of the pince ànd the absenco of all the Lassets and bunting wah

which show buzin people oftens simround there SAVON

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THE ***** GAMBOLS

THE LETTERS COHE

FOR YOU TO OPEN IT

“But I do like same ormale period fuml- ture, especially ba modern setting," he cald. "There's nothing like a bit of trumped- - up. Regency. I bought Suma Napoleon HI chales and had all the mother-of-pearl and stuff stripped oft, and gerrnity (arked them up, they look mar- velou now in a niec plak room,"

to me: "Uand to have a spot of The kitchen Is bronchitis, you know, so I told quito something with, one of His dark ned Boot me a beam somewhere. "What and primrose and white furniture for he asked. "To hang on, and fittings, and water-colour old chap,' I said. A few chins

up every day and the bronchitis has gone and my chest is four inches bigger.”

scunes of London,

A wicker flower busket hangs in an open hatch, which over- looks the white staircase with viness iwining round bannisters,

bought this place S

"I have hunted all over the bargain for £1,800 ten years world and I know that type only ago," he said, "and I completely too well, he can hang wherever redesigned it myself.

he likes but not on my wall”

The ground floor was origin- "It represents a great deal of ally a four-car garago, which thought. If I wasn't a comedian has been turned into the living I might very well have become room and the dining rooth, an interior decorator,"

connected. by sliding glass Indicating Harge Munning doors.. "We used slan painting over the fireplace living room as a casting room, them all in he sakt "I got a chau to paini So we would put

Telief, mom to walt, and me that picture specially, even the dining

1. MBC- to look!" he said with

xtini the biavellia

in his cyo. "It'y special, glass, we could see "Well, I met 's no joke, is them but they couldn't see us."

gave him same

work from,

result!

old prints

at and look

417 I've told him to come and

to use the

That is the only "1084" touch take the ruddy thing off my in Mr Thomas's home, wall. He could have put Val WHITE AND BLUE Parnell on one horse and Prince

1tler ca the other. anything The entice scheme is simple, but that," he said glowering ut with the dining room painted red-faced monolithle Blimp all white, and the living room type who glowered rigidly pale blue with white wood- back,

work.

s

"I nearly had a rock garden in hore, but I realised in the nick of time that it was a bit too twee," said Mr Thomas with

PLAIN WALLS

The study is a successful combination of uk and new. with period chairs sad desk standing onit lo odvantage bgainst a background of plain walks and modern paintings.

Suddenly Mr Thomas leaped into the air and clutched on to an enormous wooden beam protruding from the ceiling.

Breathlessly he called doreen

the workmen to leave

Making a quick

mental note to stop hanging from beams immediately, I left Mr Thomas proudly flicking the dust off his ho ornate doorknocker which "pifiobed from D derelict cottage." "Look at it, dear, a really fabulous bit of genuine nix Irun."

Barbara

Anne Taylor

=(London Express Service).