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Cutlery, Crockery and Cats.
7 Apr 2011 09:59 pmTowards the end of this month it will be our Silver Wedding Anniversary. How scary to be old enough for that! Although actually my younger sister got there before us...
Anyway - well worth celebrating, we decided - and we are going to have a luxury few days away including a very special train trip. Oh - and I'm going to go down to London on one of the days of the break to meet Ann, Kortirion, Jay and others - leaving S2C to his own devices! But we are both cool with this plan so that's OK!
However, this seemed to be a good time to get new cutlery and crockery - here is a picture that shows the old crockery -
Very basic, very 1990s, and getting badly scratched from cutlery. Which is weird, really - why on earth make plates that can be scratched by knives and forks?
The cutlery was a bit of a hotch-potch too. Replacing it became something of a major search - to get spoons and forks the shape S2C likes, bowls that I liked and so on. But we have finally achieved this - in time for the anniversary.
My mother has bought the basics of our new cutlery, and we have added the soup spoons and some pastry forks - this is it - simple, feels right in the hand, and we are both happy with it.
The crockery took even longer - and we went around in circles a bit, but we now have a full eight place setting in Halo by Denby. Somehow simple food seems posher from these!
But we had quite a lot of the old stuff, and other odd bits that didn't match it, so what to do with it? It has gone to Kemmyrk. They help their homeless clients to find homes - and often they need to furnish and equip the new homes - so our perfectly usable, if a bit scratched, crockery and our slightly battered, odd, but usable cutlery, will be recycled for someone who really needs them - I'm really happy about this - apart from anything else it isn't sitting here taking up space!
Cats? As I have sat here typing this, Shaka has been sat beside me on the settee, poking me in the arm every minute or so, claws out, to remind me that I'm not making a fuss of him.
As is often the case when you've been a couple for such a long time, S2C and I both came to the same conclusion almost spontaneously - I need a set of Bracers (aka vambraces) - preferably a magic pair, a personalised D&D magic item perhaps - Bracers of Defence +4 against Cat Claws, we think!
Also I may have been married for almost 25 years - but I can still find Neil Oliver sexy...
Anyway - well worth celebrating, we decided - and we are going to have a luxury few days away including a very special train trip. Oh - and I'm going to go down to London on one of the days of the break to meet Ann, Kortirion, Jay and others - leaving S2C to his own devices! But we are both cool with this plan so that's OK!
However, this seemed to be a good time to get new cutlery and crockery - here is a picture that shows the old crockery -
Very basic, very 1990s, and getting badly scratched from cutlery. Which is weird, really - why on earth make plates that can be scratched by knives and forks?
The cutlery was a bit of a hotch-potch too. Replacing it became something of a major search - to get spoons and forks the shape S2C likes, bowls that I liked and so on. But we have finally achieved this - in time for the anniversary.
My mother has bought the basics of our new cutlery, and we have added the soup spoons and some pastry forks - this is it - simple, feels right in the hand, and we are both happy with it.
The crockery took even longer - and we went around in circles a bit, but we now have a full eight place setting in Halo by Denby. Somehow simple food seems posher from these!
But we had quite a lot of the old stuff, and other odd bits that didn't match it, so what to do with it? It has gone to Kemmyrk. They help their homeless clients to find homes - and often they need to furnish and equip the new homes - so our perfectly usable, if a bit scratched, crockery and our slightly battered, odd, but usable cutlery, will be recycled for someone who really needs them - I'm really happy about this - apart from anything else it isn't sitting here taking up space!
Cats? As I have sat here typing this, Shaka has been sat beside me on the settee, poking me in the arm every minute or so, claws out, to remind me that I'm not making a fuss of him.
As is often the case when you've been a couple for such a long time, S2C and I both came to the same conclusion almost spontaneously - I need a set of Bracers (aka vambraces) - preferably a magic pair, a personalised D&D magic item perhaps - Bracers of Defence +4 against Cat Claws, we think!
Also I may have been married for almost 25 years - but I can still find Neil Oliver sexy...