It's Tuesday, 24th October and the weather is showing distinct signs of improvement. Yesterday was an enforced lazy-day, but this morning we walked along the sea-front to St Heliers and bought some steak for dinner. Later on we'll be popping up the the New World supermarket to do a big shop (it's always interesting to go to other peoples' supermarkets).

The picture is of a bowl that I bought from a shop in the arcade at St Heliers this morning; it was a most unexpected find. I have one similar to this, Chinese celadon, from Fujian province, Song-dynasty (about 800-years old), but this one has a stacking-ring: the glaze has been turned-off the bowl in a circle so that another bowl can stand inside it for firing, without the glaze welding the two together). I've wanted one of these for a long time. The bowl was found in Indonesia, which is bang-right for wares of this type. Now all I have to do is get it home in one piece.