Fuchsia

In Bennetsbridge, near Callan, you can find the Nicholas Mosse pottery warehouse and shop. Every year, I buy a piece from the fuchsia range, it being the flower I most associate with Ireland.

It's not cheap, but they have a cheaper "seconds" section, on which I can never detect the flaws. And I never tire of watching the potters at work.

In this picture you can also spy some of my mum's interesting teapots...