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Got to dash now - just been invited out for tea :~)). I'll look in
again
later.

Just bought a rather nice old teapot. When I've eased some slight dents
out and straightened one of the feet I'll post a pic.

Lovely :~). I hope it doesn't have a rusty hinge as well! {:~

No. It has a very nicely-fitted silver-plated hinge. Unlike most of my
silver plated artifacts, most of the silver remains where it was
deposited.

Foot straightened - an easier job than I'd anticipated. Let's hope the
undenting is as easy...

Sounds lovely. Good luck with the undenting process .. much harder to
achieve.

How many cups of tea with it?

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I had two cups of tea, thank you, and I was very good and declined
biscuits.

Hmmm. Had some oatcakes, butter and real proper non-slab Cheddar with my
two mugs of tea.

Yummy. The Husband Thingy would call your proper Cheddar 'great lumps of
fat'! Grrrr.. honestly!

There is something lovely about teapots, isn't there? - apart from the
tea,
that is!

True. Have a Victorian (I'd guess) N.S. (all E.P. worn off) matching
'gentleman's teapot', milk jug and sugar bowl. Pretty, pale gold colour,
but molishes only two small cups of tea.

:~(

New model will molish a small bucketful.

Much more like it! :~))

I have a friend who collects them, and I have one or two myself. Alas,
nobody seems to make decaff loose leaf tea; sacrilege, I know, but
migraine
doesn't give me a lot of choice, so I'm doomed to drink teabag tea most
of
the time. Fortunately, I've found a brand I quite enjoy. I'd still like
a
'proper' brew, though. Nothing quite like it.

Ah, back on gardening - make a tisane from feverfew leaves - it often
prevents migraines - but it doesn't seem to have any effect once you're
under its evil spell. (Migraine, not feverfew)

It's better with fresh leaves, but feverfew is so prolific that you
should be able to dry a winter's supply from very few plants.

When my mother took the tisane in the morning, she seldom (if ever)
succumbed to migraine. Very often however, she said she'd wished she'd
had her morning cup...

Sadly, I never found it very effective. Perhaps I should try again. My
real problem isn't having migraine, it's having too many triggers *and*
neuropathy. However, thanks for the reminder about feverfew; I will try
again.

Oops .. we seem to have wobbled off topic .. or at least changed the
thread
from Galanthus nivalis to Camellia chinensis! Oh well, never mind.
Enjoy
your teapot.

Teapots! SS ones, china ones, a Chinese earthenware one (I can't make
out whether the spout is on at right-angles to the handle, or vice
versa...) and the plated ones - well, one plated and the other
displated.

Teapots indeed! I have a SS one, two china (one posh, one everyday), and a
'China Tea' pot from the 'World of Tea Collection' signed 'Sadler', but I
don't think it's especially collectible. My collector friend gave it to me,
and I gave her one of mine.
I also have a brass 'vessel (for want of a better name) which could be a
teapot or a small decorative kettle. I would have more, but I've got
Collectors' Brain (an unfortunate condition), but nowhere to put new
acquisitions.

I got some tea nuts from Chiltern Seeds some years ago, but they didn't
germinate. They have a very short viability.

Never heard of those. In one sense, I *am* a tea nut!, but that's not quite
the same thing. Pity you couldn't get it to grow. Was it a Camellia
relative, or what ..?

Spider

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Rusty
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