The British fondness for Radio 4's Shipping Forecast is a comforting thing.
And thanks to E. Annie Proulx, even American readers (and I know there are a lot of you) will know what I'm on about. It's why this tiny little pin dish – depicting the evocatively named sea regions surrounding the British Isles – is pretty much my favourite thing in daily use in my house.
It's a bit knackered, and