Buddha

Here's Buddha, smiling benignly/complaisantly?

He was made (I believe from a cast) by my grandpa in 1944 - I know the date because it's engraved on the base.  He was then presumably hand painted and glazed.  And someone - probably also my grandpa - made a nice shaped wooden base for him.

He belonged to my parents - he lived in their bedroom.

I am not sure at what stage he came to live with me - was it when Dad moved to Norfolk, or was it after dad died?

Either way - he now lives on top of our piano.  I noticed him today because the top of the piano tends to get rather cluttered, and he has been hiding behind the woven basket I made a few months ago, perched on top of which was the box of lateral flow tests.  

W did a lateral flow test today, as his streaming cold, which started over a week ago, is still streaming, along with a cough.  We'd been feeling relatively complaisant, as we had to do a day 2 PCR last week, and that had been negative.  But we just felt that this had gone on long enough.  Fortunately, today's test was also negative.