TUSCAN DISHWASHER, 18th CENTURY VERSION

This is a typical Tuscan stone sink. It looks crude and out of place in a modern kitchen but they are wizard things. Once you've used one, all other sinks seem inferior. It is wonderful to have a large wet space in the kitchen and lots of slosh space. I have a larger, deeper one just outside the kitchen door. The original one for the house was ripped out and carted off long ago. I would have photographed mine but it is not the genuine article. Mine is made from the same stone, from the same quarry, but it is new. I had to have one.

They are almost always propped up on bricks as this one is. Mine is, too, but mine does not have cabinets underneath, nor did this one until I asked Giancarlo, seen in a previous blip photo, to put them there. He also made the drying rack above the sink.

It's a torrid day, the countryside is crackling. Summer, at last.