Tea chest

I can't imagine how many pots of tea I have made in 9 years of running a B&B, but the tea is kept in this lovely chest.

I found it on a market stall in Lymington, Hampshire in about 1989. It had been carefully made from a tree that came down during the Great Storm of 1987. I remember being delighted that some good was coming out of an event which devastated hundreds of thousands of trees in southern England.