RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31585, 24 January 1968, Page 19

RANDOM REMINDER

GILT

It’s all very well for country people to laugh at town folk who can't tell a Clydesdale from a milking shorthorn. If you have grown up in a city and lived in a flat all your life, it is a strange and frightening world outside the coffee houses and offices. There must be a considerable number of people who have lived in this sort of environment only, and we know of two young ones who were married a few years ago and lived in at flat. But they overcame every effort of the Government to prevent them saving enough to buy a house, and duly moved in to a suburban residence.

It was hard to sleep for a long time, because it was the summer season and the noise of the crickets was fearful. But they loved it: each day brought new and exciting discoveries. Neither of them had seen a snail since their primary school days and here, on their own property, they found huge fat ones which look as if they needed only the slightest encouragement to grow into mini-prehistoric reptiles. And there were lovely fat slugs, lots of them, to gloat over: all part of their fascinating property. But they had to agree that the midges were a

nuisance. They came in thousands during a spell of warm weather. At first the novelty of the little creatures made it all bearable. But the patter of tiny wings palled, and she decided that she would get rid of them. She sprayed industriiously and vigorously. But they all came back, bringing their friends and relations as well and looking extremely well-groomed and healthy. She sprayed again and they called up the reserves for a massive assault. They only got rid of them when she stopped spraying them with furniture polish.