miscellaneous treasures

More items I will be bringing home with me: a Tilley hat, sent over for Papa by Uncle John (from Canada, where John emigrated and was a schoolteacher), never worn; a large wooden candlestick, turned by my great-grandmother's landlord in Feldkirchen; a small rabbit biscuit cutter. (There is more to come, of course, but I am categorically not carrying it via Belfast in hand-baggage-only.)

Treasures of the day: Grandpa B's (my great-grandfather's) correspondence and photograph albums, from his time on a cable-laying ship in the West Indies and from his time stationed on the HMS Essex.