Nothing like an old coffee tin to keep valuables safe

IT IS time we went retro to safeguard our possessions. To retrograde means to go back to a nostalgic or old-fashioned trend. I propose we hide jewellery and money the way most people did in the good old days.

I have been reliably informed by a cousin that our grandfather, who after indentureship on the railways was a humble market gardener, hid what little jewellery he had in a hole he had dug in the cow-dung smeared mud floor of his austere house in then Cavendish (now Woodhurst, Chatsworth).

Decades back, an aunt would hide her jewellery in a coffee