This is a beach find sometime in the 1990's but I can't remember where I was when I found it. The 'eyes' are rusty nail marks. It obviously snapped off a larger piece of wood, perhaps a plank from a box, and spent some time in the sea. The edges are really smooth and worn and immediately looked like a perching owl when I saw it so I had to pick it up and mount it. Had I approached it from a different direction it might well just have looked like a piece of scrap wood.

We call this the Knoydart Stone. I found it while in Knoydart Scotland. It was, I believe washed up on the shore and had floated there from who knows where? It has obviously been used as a hammering block and has some age to it but after being in the water it has worn so it could be any age. It is a very sculptural piece with a great patina. I found it in 1994 and my daughter used it to reach the bathroom lightpull when she was younger. I have considered mounting it on a metal rod welded to a metal plate to stand it up as a piece of art, but I can't bring myself to drill it, so it remains what it is. I think it might be oak but I'm not sure...

This mug was made for the Leen Valley Morris side in the mid 1980's. I only realised today (11-11-20) when I found it again while sorting things out and saw the JBS stamp under the handle. I was a founder member of the side in the 1980's. I was not involved with the design or making of the mug so hadn't realised that it was a JBS piece.

This is an October 2020 Ebay purchase. When I saw it on sale I was suspicious of it as a complete set but I bought it anyway. It is a cruet set; salt, pepper and mustard pots, but I am not certain that the mustard pot is correct. It looks like a honey pot to me, the shape is like a hive and there is a bee above the door. The salt and pepper pots look like fisherman's baskets, and if they are what has that got to do with honey. The brown of the roof doesn't seem to match the colour of the other pots, and the green of the foliage around the honey pot doesn't seem to match the base. On the plus side all the pieces fit into the base almost like a glove? The honey pot has the Marutomo backstamp but the base has 'Made in Japan' impressed into it. I would have thought they would both have had Marutomo. The 'honey pot' is very small, there are other similar ones that are quite a bit larger. It looks like a honey pot hiding inside a cruet set. I'm not sure. It does work as a cruet set visually so does it matter?

Another barrel cave or room below the Long Row shop.