Several people asked me to publish the full photograph of the small display of the detritus of my life mounted at the Design Museum before Christmas. It has now just arrived and I am posting it accordingly, in spite of the realisation that these things are unconsciously revealing, not just the marmite pot and the blue braces, but the vest from a company which is now defunct, all so immaculately laid out for the archaeologists of the future:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Beautifully laid out : especially the verticals – the tie, the poker. Elegant.
SO elegant and So revealing.
Of course the pressing question is why you were using coal tongs and yet collecting logs for the fire…?
Were the logs for ANOTHER fire?
Were the tongs part of a life-size game of Cluedo?
there is also the matter of the absent toothbrush…..
It would make a splendid book.
Good question. The poker and the logs were last minute additions. I was meant to include everything I had touched in the course of the day and I had indeed touched the logs and the poker. Also, the log basket. But the log basket was dropped as too bulky, which demontrates that, like many things in life, there is an artfulness in the selection. Are you sure there’s no toothbrush ? Charles
Perhaps there is a Radius toothbrush in that little white box above the toothpaste.
Yes, that’s right. It’s an electric toothbrush in the white box above the Meridol toothpaste which is above the razor. Charles