The nicer part of yesterday's exercise of looking around my things and noting the feelings they brought up, were the memories: of choosing that painting at a private view in Harrogate, of where we were when we found that decoy duck - so elegant (it was The Jam Factory Oxford), of how pleased we were at buying the sofa. How fortunate we felt that that piece of furniture has fitted in in all our different houses. How we smiled, and still smile at 6 year old Laura calling the chest of drawers 'the chester drawers (we're not in the habit of giving our furniture names, but this is called 'Chester'.
So here is a photo of that duck on Chester.....