5th June 2021

Worryingly  views to my blog have doubled in the last two days, why I don't know, was it the tea set I put on the other day, now elsewhere at Age Concern.  Or is there a criminal element out there?

So something innocuous, this time the cascading blooms of wisteria at Hylands House near Chelmsford, which came through as a memory on F/B.

It is funny how memories come up for yesterday whilst packing a problem arose.  I have the most delicate Chinese tea cups with painted Wisteria fronds hanging down given by my first MIL.  The old black box in which they kept, lined with red silk has several gaps where a couple of cups have been broken.  The box will not fit into the medium cardboard boxes I have, do I buy more? delivery is expensive  Why do we hang on to these things, my reason one of the grandchildren may want to inherit it.

The cups have lasted for a long time, from the 19th century at least, there is also a beautiful silk piano cloth, embroidered with a great dragon and chrysanthemum flowers, the embroidery thread grey now with age but still beautiful.  

Packing has been about choices, there I was ready to stride out into another future with less possessions, but I realise I need all the plates, mugs and bowls for family meals....  

https://northstoke.blogspot.com/2012/05/in-praise-of-wistaria.html