And so Clive Nunn came to Languedoc from Ballyduff carrying wonderful things in his van.

Six nut-brown eggs laid by the new ladies in his life.
(He claims that these hens move around their house in Ballyduff , peering in windows ,always making sure that they can see him. )

A new long console table for my long narrow hall, designed to carry tourist leaflets and the visitors book and to echo the cherry framed family tree on the wall.
(NB the bowl of shamrock awaiting our guests for the St. Patrick’s Day Festivities)

Twenty two years ago Clive designed and made the cherry sideboard for the restaurant in Mary Street.

Now he has made a set of shelves to hang over it , also in cherry but needing a few years to acquire the patina of its bottom half.
At last we have a place to stash the old French coffee bowls and absinthe and liqueur glasses.