Hen’s eggs

I bought this unusual egg holder when we visited the National Trust property at Cotehele last year. There is a potter who has a studio in an old building near the mill. One of the things he likes to make are pots like this. Of course I started talking to him and explained about our little Cornish farm. He said as a child he remembered visiting a farm and a vivid memory was a mother hen all fluffed up keeping warm a nest of newly hatched chicks. Hence this sort of pot he started to make many years later. I know from what our guests say that even very young children have strong memories of their holiday with us. I wonder if in later life these memories, as with this potter, will help to shape things that they actual do as an adult. Melanie xxx