Hi folks, and thanks for all the remarks, they're greatly appreciated.
Ken....I accept what you say about the lid, I would have preferred to have made it from the same material as the bowl, but where on earth would you get another piece to match the figuring in the base. To put a piece of straight-grained walnut on top would, in my opinion, have just looked wrong, so it had to be something contrasting. OK, I could have just left it as a a bowl, but this piece was made to sell, and we all know how much easier it's going to be to sell a lidded box that a small bowl.
Les