Necessity dictated that we needed a new teapot! since the other one met with an accident over the Christmas period!
So out with the old:
r.i.p ... and in with the new, just like the New Year that's just started! The new one matches my tea set, which is a bonus and I also have a spare lid for it. An English lady needs a lot of teapots! The design for the new teapot is Colclough Royale. I originally bought it for my mum, purchasing a few items each birthday as I could afford it. Most of it is still intact, but this is the third teapot that has joined the cups and saucers! Sadly, the Colclough factory is no longer in existence, making my teaset a collector's item.
The poem below describes where I am in my life right now. I like very much being a Grandma and look forward to the days when my little grandson will come round for tea and cakes with Oma.
Copper kettle burnished bright,
Glinting in the firelight,
Starched white tablecloth in place,
Edged with newly crocheted lace,
Heady smells of fresh-baked bread,
Hand-made butter pats to spread,
Damson jam and apricot,
Tea brewing in a cosied pot,
The tinkle of those silver spoons
Brought magic to those afternoons,
Her wrinkled face, her kind, blue eyes,
The cakes that she called butterflies;
Such memories in mind I see,
Of going to my gran's for tea...
by Brian H. Gent.
A nice cup of tea,
Just right to have with a plate of chocolate chip cookies:
What follows is a picture of a child's Japanese tea set, part of it anyway! It was mine when I was little, but this is all I have left. I may well be searching through E-bay in the future!
Does anyone else have a child's tea set from their youth?
