12" BRASS PLATE...

... from Baghdad - bought by my lovely, daft uncle Peter Heddle. He was up to no good in Palestine at the end of WW2 & for some reason found himself on leave in Baghdad & he squandered his army pay on stuff like this + some beautiful carpets...

On coming home, he gave this plate to his sister, my mother - Mary Frances Heddle.

36°C today - no incentive to go out - we did have window-rattling thunder - but two minutes of pathetic rain!