An upside down world

Here we have the kitchen CD player, a plate of home made hot cross buns, a slice of Wensleydale (ymmmm) and one of Timelord's special possessions.


It may look like a junior dalek minus the business arms but in fact it is a flour shaker. It belonged to my mother and must have been used to dust the kitchen table on many a baking day before she began to roll out her pastry. It must have tonnes of the stuff on its clock.


If you have ever had your hand full of hot cross bun dough this is your friend as a sprinkling of flour helps free the fingers of the gooey stuff.

Now here is Teapot's father's house and if you expand the photo you will see the name of the house, "Milford Haven", in lakeland stone just to the right of the door. One of the first things he said to me when he came here after FLN died was how FLN had asked him once, rather nervously, if he could have it after grandad died. FLN's middle name, like his grandad, was Milford. He had agreed. But it seemed to sum up in one incident how upset he was that he had survived his grandson.

So this week when Teapot went to see him he had made sure the stone was taken down and he gave it to her. It will be reset at 73 Rosary Road, probably in the garden, and when you go there you must ask it see it.

So a flour shaker and a piece of lakeland stone: one making a family journey in the normal course of things but the other a mark of how our world has been turned upside down.