Show and tell

One way to encourage conversation in any language is to ask women to show one other objects so precious they'd never throw them away; this is what we did in our Spanish group this morning. There were only half a dozen of us there, but we came from four different continents, and we talked about ...

• an Indonesian wedding photo
  
• a ceramic dish brought to Canada from Portugal
  
• a copper bell bought in a remote Peruvian market, probably meant to hang around the neck of a llama
  
• a one-inch-to-the-mile Ordnance Survey map of the North York Moors
  
• a Taiwanese teapot acquired by a Polish family who'd done business in Taipei
  

Guess which my contribution was.