Fifteen years on I am still on the lookout for green bowls from the M-L Hellgren collection by Höganäs, and sometimes I get a hit. The medium bowls are still the hardest to find.

We may have broken one or two, but also we just want/need more of these. The bowls are the perfect size for a dinner portion for me or Ingrid, and for serving, and for yoghurt and granola, and just very useful in general. We use the small plates even more, but those are easy to get hold of – I think we might have twice the original number by now.

I didn’t think that glazed stoneware got worn with use, but clearly it does. The bowl I just got today from Tradera looks luxuriously glossy compared to our well-used one. Were all of them as shiny at one point? I don’t remember.