Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2019/09/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Douglas, I disagree. Coffee is best drunk from a thick walled stainless steel tumbler. You might well be right about tea! :-) Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 3:22 AM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: > Yes indeed Jim, my grandmother served me apple tart on willow pattern. > She couldn't do peach as they don't grow very well over here at 53 > degrees north. > As for the tea cup, you can't beat drinking tea or coffee from fine bone > china. > > Douglas > > > On 22/09/2019 19:34, Jim Nichols wrote: > > Taking a break from my library book, I looked around for a suitable > > subject for a photo exercise. The most suitable were found in my late > > wife's china cabinet. Here are a couple from her diverse collection. > > > > The first is important to no one but myself. It is a single piece of > > English China in one of the many Blue Willow patterns, and it was the > > plate on which my Mother served me my piece of pie, usually peach, > > because we had peach trees, during the depression years of my > > childhood, in the 1930s. > > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220193.JPG.html > > > > The second is one of about a dozen English tea cups and saucers in > > assorted patterns that my wife inherited from her Grandmother. These > > apparently made their way to Mississippi after a visit to her Canadian > > family members, and have been jealously guarded ever since. > > > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20190922-P9220197.JPG.html > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information