The beauty of collecting West German Pottery is that you can always tailor it to fit into any design, colour or style that you want. The current trend for all things Union Jack, London and British is all very well and good, but what do you do with your stuff next year or the year after?

As we’re in the process of doing our house up, colour schemes and so on are a constant topic of conversation (or at least thought when you can’t be bothered to trawl through Wallpaper Direct again). I think this year, my nod to the patriotic theme of 2012 will be to dot a few red, white and blue pieces of West German pottery around the house. Maybe stick a few of the free flags we got in Ashton a few weeks ago in some of the pots.

I wonder if someone could design/manufacture some pottery inspired bunting?