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« Reply #45 on: 00:14:28, 09-09-2008 » |
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Good one ollie.... who are you again??
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #46 on: 08:43:26, 09-09-2008 » |
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I have found my mug! It was in the dining room, unwashed, with a spoon in it. I never take it into the dining room. I hardly ever go into the dining room, but I was sorting it out the other day in anticipation of the next visit by my son and daughter-in-law. I have no memory of taking the mug in with me.
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« Reply #47 on: 09:39:09, 09-09-2008 » |
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I have found my mug! Hurrah!  It's always cheering when that happens. And what a lovely, unfussy, homely word 'mug' is. In the spirit of Christopher Smart I have decided to take pleasure in the happy marriage of word and object for a while. Mug, mugge, mugg, muggy. A thought too for the spoon which was also lost and then found but whose adventures seems to be receiving slightly unfair second billing here. Perhaps they would have me on Thought For The Day if I asked. |
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« Reply #48 on: 09:54:18, 09-09-2008 » |
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...Perhaps they would have me on Thought For The Day if I asked.
Goodness me! Now that is already a "thought for the day". Baz |
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Mary Chambers
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« Reply #49 on: 09:58:12, 09-09-2008 » |
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I have many spoons, George, but only one favourite mug. I hadn't noticed the spoon was missing. Mug is an interesting word, when you come to think of it. Ugly mug, mugger, you're a mug. (Not George, obviously  ) My mother remembered Northern dialect speakers in her youth talking about dolls with "muggen" (china, pottery) faces. Pudding is another good descriptive word, so long as it's suet pudding, not meringue or anything dainty. I meant to offer sympathies to A about her broken mug. I find eBay very useful for replacing odd broken items, but if it was a present it's irreplaceable  |
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« Reply #50 on: 10:03:35, 09-09-2008 » |
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I have many spoons, George, but only one favourite mug. I hadn't noticed the spoon was missing.
I've got lots of teaspoons too and I'm not really sure how - I'm sure they multiply behind my back. My cutlery drawer is quite a contrast with my other half's - he only has 2 teaspoons. 2 teaspoons!! I think I might start to transfer some surreptitiously, you can't properly get by with only 2 teaspoons. (When did I start to sound like a script from Last of the Summer Wine?) |
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« Reply #51 on: 10:10:30, 09-09-2008 » |
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Thanks Mary.. it is , as tommo says.. silly to bother about such losses ! Glad you have found yours though. There are good places to replace spoons, mugs and other things , (not puddings though) the old favourite haunts of charity shops. We bought for my daughter a lovely set of wine glasses very cheaply from one just near her flat. Or... there is always Ikea  but they are cheap !! Now , let me at 'em... is there a yellow mug with a kind of lip round the bottom and a picture of a fish in relief on.....? A  |
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« Reply #52 on: 10:31:30, 09-09-2008 » |
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I've got lots of teaspoons too and I'm not really sure how - I'm sure they multiply behind my back. They're mine, Ruby Twobe! I've got eight of everything else but am now down to four coffee spoons and two teaspoons  . It's beginning to get critical. Don't worry I'll refund your postage. |
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« Reply #53 on: 10:33:07, 09-09-2008 » |
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I've got lots of teaspoons too and I'm not really sure how - I'm sure they multiply behind my back. They're mine, Ruby Twobe! I've got eight of everything else but am now down to four coffee spoons and two teaspoons . It's beginning to get critical. Don't worry I'll refund your postage. Aha, maybe there are connecting wormholes in our cutlery drawers. I'll try pushing a few towards the back - see if you notice any improvement. |
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« Reply #54 on: 11:05:37, 09-09-2008 » |
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Thanks Mary.. it is , as tommo says.. silly to bother about such losses !
Well I wouldn't go that far..... I do wonder why we get so upset about such losses, but I don't think it's silly. Objects can trigger off wonderful memories each time we go to the cupboard, and after all what are we without our memories? Anyway, what has happend to 3 of my 6 espresso saucers? Tommo |
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« Reply #55 on: 11:12:57, 09-09-2008 » |
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Thanks Mary.. it is , as tommo says.. silly to bother about such losses !
Well I wouldn't go that far..... I do wonder why we get so upset about such losses, but I don't think it's silly. Objects can trigger off wonderful memories each time we go to the cupboard, and after all what are we without our memories? Anyway, what has happend to 3 of my 6 espresso saucers? Tommo I don't think it's at all silly either A, I get very attached to objects as well - and it doesn't take me long. I took a mug with daisies on it to the London office when I worked there for a while - I took it to cheer myself up (there's something cheering about daisies) but it disappeared from the kitchen. I can only assume that someone broke it, but I was gutted. It wasn't even a present either, I'd just bought it from the supermarket. So that was even sillier. Funnily enough, we went to stay in a cottage a few months later and there was an identical cup there. I was so tempted to accidentally drop it into my suitcase but it just wasn't my cup. Plus stealing is naughty of course... |
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« Reply #56 on: 11:17:39, 09-09-2008 » |
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Identical? Had someone from your office been to stay atthe self-same cottage and left your daisy mug there, only for you to find it months later and abandon it?
We shall never know....
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PS Or perhaps you had a REALLY senior moment and forgot the period between when you yourself took it from the office and 'found' it at the cottage.
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« Reply #57 on: 11:24:21, 09-09-2008 » |
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Ruby,
Identical? Had someone from your office been to stay atthe self-same cottage and left your daisy mug there, only for you to find it months later and abandon it?
We shall never know....
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PS Or perhaps you had a REALLY senior moment and forgot the period between when you yourself took it from the office and 'found' it at the cottage.
I'm not quite that senior yet! OR... and this is a long shot indeed.... maybe other branches of Morrisons had been selling them too... No, it's too far-fetched. |
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« Reply #58 on: 11:59:29, 09-09-2008 » |
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Anyway, what has happend to 3 of my 6 espresso saucers?
I've got them - but have you got my two missing ramekins? |
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« Reply #59 on: 12:02:56, 09-09-2008 » |
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Anyway, what has happend to 3 of my 6 espresso saucers?
I've got them - but have you got my two missing ramekins? Don't talk to me about ramekins, I'm knee-deep in them. I think they must be breeding. |
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