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‘This is the Ma’s old milk jug, the good one that was always kept in the China Cabinet in our front parlour and only taken out whenever we had visitors. Sure most visitors we had were our relations and they drank their tea out of cracked cups like the rest of us. The milk jug was part of a set that the Ma’ was given as a wedding present in 1938, there was also a sugar bowl and a delph teapot that she got. The milk jug is all that’s left of the set. But the Ma’ treasured the jug, she’d put it out on the tea table of a Sunday and it was just for her and the Da’ to use. Isn’t it gas all the same, how little things meant so much to the Ma’ and Da’?…’