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Coffee for 73 guests

15/2/2018

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Just a few trays...Royal Doulton "Yvonne", Wedgwood black basalt, Arabia, Waechtersbach, Limoges, Spode, Rosenthal, Arzberg...
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Finally, the new carpet is to go down.  (It took a while to find the colour.  It seems no-one does colour any more - it's wall to wall beige, taupe, grey, steel, cream, brown or taupe.)  Had to move the furniture in the sitting room. This meant emptying one of the sideboards.  A dear friend helped.  Because it's not her house, she could be brutality impartial and sensible. We found, among other things, coffee cups for 73 guests.  I haven't mentioned the teacups.

Am I a hoarder?  No, I'm a collector.  A collection is only as good as your retrieval system. And I can tell you that my retrieval system is now a lot better.

Notice I said "one of the sideboards".  Soon, Rosa will come over, have a ristretto in one of the coffee cups and we'll get down to sorting the rest. I use everything and get much pleasure from it.  I don't have ordinary and "for best". But I think there is definitely a garage sale coming up - a well curated garage sale of course.

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Pascale
16/2/2018 05:27:52 am

...and how many people can you serve artichokes and oysters?

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Cathy link
16/2/2018 06:43:51 am

Umm, let me see - 18 for oysters, 17 for asparagus, 12 for artichokes, 11 for avocados.

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Tania (@foodwithaview_oz) link
13/3/2018 11:39:05 pm

I inherited quite a large collection of my grandmother's tea cups - every cup tells a story. I can't imagine parting with any although I know I will have to cull them eventually.

It must be awfully difficult to decide which coffee cups to part with ...

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Cath link
17/3/2018 05:55:04 pm

Stick with the tea cups, Tania. I hate being asked if I'd like a cup of tea then being handed a mug (sometimes even with a teabag). Where does one place the Iced Vovo or the Chocolate Digestive?

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