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Hello. We begin today with a short list of mere things.

There's a lipstick-stained cigarette butt, there's an old airline ticket, there's a painted swing and a tinkling piano.

And here is how Cole Porter and Hutch, Leslie Hutchinson,

memorably put them all together.

The cigarette, but there's a lipstick's tracer

an airline ticket to romantic places

and still my heart has wings.

These foolish things remind me of you.

Yes, these foolish things. But no such simple romantic thread links the foolish things that are now going to absorb our attention.

This list of foolish things includes such objects as old mobile phones, bits of electrical cable,

a hand blender, a rice cooker, secondhand children's car seats and redundant mattress.

Not exactly coal- Porter material but all valuable

empirical examples for the author of a research paper called the Hidden Lives of

Domestic Things Accumulations in Covered, lofts and shelves.

And she's Sophie Woodward, lecturer in sociology

at the University of Manchester,

and my first studio yesterday.

Now, in your paper, you focus on what you term

dormant objects in people's houses what you mean by

those? Well dormant things are understood to be things that are kept or have

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