It may not look like much to you, but this tidy bench feels deeply good. In its natural state it is covered in all manner of stuff, bits and bobs, odds and sods, flotsam, jetsam, paraphernalia and miscellaneous junk. Some of it is important, some of it not. Nonetheless it all piles up in a giant, messy, endlessly expanding party on my bench. To corral it into this picture of calm is quite remarkable.

a tidy bench with salt and pepper grinders and fruit basket