Magpie Syndrome
289 Views[image:549:l]This morning I was emptying the ashes from the stove. One of the hazards of burning turf is that the ash retains heat for longer. Peat ash is also incredibly dusty so I decided to let the ash pan sit on the hearth until they were completely cool and could be stuck in a plastic bag ready for the bin. This meant there would be no ash pan meantime and so I improvised. In the back of a cupboard was a biscuit tin full of my now dead Aunt’s spoon collection. It was just the right size. Perfect for the job. There aren’t too many houses with a Luxury ash pan!
The next problem was the unwanted clatter of silver plated souvenirs now piled up on the tin lid with nowhere to go. Spoons from all over the world. The whole family responsible for bringing her one from wherever they roamed. I started to wonder if she actually liked them or just tolerated them as handy gifts from a family who lacked imagination and simply kept buying more spoons even though she now kept them in a box in the cupboard. Passed on to lucky me when she died I haven’t the heart to throw them away nor the interest to do anything with them and so they will stay in a box taking up cupboard space just the same as other inherited collections of useless china trinkets which I haul out every five years to reminisce…
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bloody hell thats a lot of silver spoons … mind you .. there are lots of people who collect them these days, you might be sitting on a small fortune… when i say small i mean… not very big.. !!!
When I went to Iceland I managed one of their stainless spoons through customs
. I doubt anyone allows anything but plastic anywhere by now.
It is quite an interesting spoon though.
I think that adequately presented you might have something there for the antique
roadshow. My mother tells me that using a silver spoon to stir orange
juice or anything acidic allows colloidal silver into the bloodstream to help better immune system function.
As if they occupy so much of ur oh-so-precious cupboard space. Yea u heard me right and this is when I shall say: Stop cribbing!! lol!!