Having set this challenge, I now find it quite hard to make my own list, but will try ! These are all objects I have still ...
1. To represent the ag. labs - a well worn spade which was my grandfathers (although he was a generation or two beyond the ag. labs)
2. Grandfathers wooden stool, which he cut down and repaired from an old Post Office stool, where he was a sorter during the depression.
3. My mothers sampler of Dorset buttons, which she was taught how to make by her grandmother, who had been a Dorset button maker
4. One of those wooden shoe lasts or leather working tools of my fathers - he was apprenticed to a bespoke shoe maker
5. A WW2 ration book !
6. Flower pots and flowers = my Hampshire grandmother who loved flowers, and was a great gardener, despite being exiled to a life in London, and who passed on her love of gardening to me !
7. An African basket or water pot to represent me and my children
8. Something political ... I've got an old voting card ... to represent the women in my family who fought for womens votes
9. Books ... all the family valued education and reading ... maybe my uncles old school atlas, which showed most of the world still pink !
10. Can I have something quite big, which I dont actually possess ? If so, a Canadian covered wagon from the 1890's, which my great aunt lived in and gave birth to some of her children in, and which was the start of a long line of Canadian cousins !