Memories of Smoky Glass Plates

A "busy"day today, visiting my niece, seeing a neighbour and swimming - amongst the usual stuff of trying to sort my Risk Assessment training docs to get the business started.


It was great popping over to my niece - I had to take her "rock" cakes that were really chocolate chip cookies - the ones I made a couple of days ago. If I hadn't got them to her today they really would have been ROCK cakes!


We chatted about dozens of things that should all be blogged - spiders - psychics - her Dad's band - photography and - my plates.


A couple of days ago she had popped over to see Jess, my daughter - her cousin (we do have a lovely close family) and Jess gave her lunch on a smoky glass plate.


She said she had an instant flashback to the days when we (Mark and I)  used to look after her and her sister during their school holidays. I laughed - yes Jess must have nicked one of the plates!


We used to have a set of 6 dinner plates. 


As with many children leaving home ..... Jess seems to have managed to squirrel away some of our crockery and probably cutlery too - this is definitely a piece of advice I would give to those who will face this transition in the future -      HIDE.   YOUR.    STUFF!


Anyway I then proceeded to tell her (Leanne) about these wonderful plates. In fact a whole dinner set - 6 cups, 6 saucers, 6 tea plates and 6 dinner plates - that are still in daily use even though they are over 20 years old!


Mark and I were young - no children and not yet home owners. We had gone on a day trip to Great Yarmouth on a "great" British summer day - it rained - nothing changed much there then!


We had taken cover in one of the arcades and at the back were a few punters playing BINGO.


We challenged each other and sat down to play ... "1 or 2 games" 


We were hooked - we must have spent 2 or 3 hours that afternoon and re-invested any small winnings on yet another game. We realised near the end of our run that we actually had won enough tickets to exchange for a substantial prize ! 


After a little discussion we both agreed that we were going to get engaged, married, live together and have children (anyone who knows me can comment on the particular order of these events another time LOL) )


So we settled for what became the first item to grace  my "bottom drawer" - being this smoky dinner set .......... and it is so lovely that we are all still using it !!!


So. Now for dinner and yes ....... it will be served on smoky glass plates!