Sydney Road, Brunswick

I am working two days a week in Sydney Road Brunswick. It’s a drab street with fusty and cluttered strip shops.

I found this stunning dish there. It’s bright clear colours are the very opposite to the street colours.

I have it on my table and smile every time I see it. It lightens my mood. It’s made in China and I would love to tell the people, who will have earned a pittance making it (it was ridiculously cheap – the cost of a pizza) how much pleasure it is giving me.

An up-date on the toadstools - they have all died and left a greyish mess around the plant. I am now wondering if I will get any more.