Coffee for 73 guests

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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