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Subject: [Leica] Img: Afternoon Exercise
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 08:54:42 +0530
References: <7af0a302-1e23-213a-936e-1aa9f42dd993@lighttube.net> <c5def49e-0a8b-04e7-daad-c9acd978621a@iol.ie>

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
> >
>
>
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Replies: Reply from photo.philippe.amard at gmail.com (Philippe) ([Leica] Img: Afternoon Exercise)
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