A White MGB

All sorts of curious things come in to the charity shop where we work on two days of the week. This is an example, and it's part of the fun of the place that I can spend some time finding out what it is. It's about 20cm long, and a bit of research on the internet showed that it's the seed pod of Banksia grandis, a tree which is native to Western Australia.

In some ways such an object is rather sad as there's obviously a story behind it, but it's not part of our job to ask the person who has donated it, usually in amongst a load of other miscellaneous objects of more or less value to us, what the story is as it might have painful associations.

A metal plaque came in today, the sort of thing one might screw to the wall in a workshop, showing a very smart MGB sports car. It's a good example of how objects have associations for it brought back memories of our time in Jamaica because a very dear friend of ours owned this little white gem of a car.

His name was Bob Morris, he was an American, and he was part of the fun of being out there. However, like so many friends, we left him bobbing around in the wake of our continual movement, so we have no idea what happened to him. All we can do is hope he had a fulfilling life and made many other people smile as much he did us.