Plasticos Barrera, La Cala del Moral, Malaga

My good friend and ex sister-in-law Puri has a plastic and curtain shop on the main square and I pop in on my way from her home to beach Bar Juani. Sometimes I take some waxed cloth with me for my kitchen table, different patterns than I would find in Eastbourne or Brighton. A bright pattern catches my eye - it turns out to be an authentic 1960s plastic cloth Puri came across in the warehouse. She cuts a couple of meters off the roll and gives it to me. It will cheer me up when I go onto the kitchen in the dark winter mornings to make coffee.

I use a piece of the cloth to line a box entitled The Shock of the New.