Because we've been going to the local farm shop a lot more regularly lately, and buying rather a lot of the Biona organic products they've had on offer, we've begun to seriously run out of storage space. I've got a large cupboard in the hall that not only stores all the table linens and kitchen towels, but has also been a very useful storage area for the overspill of tins and jars from the kitchen shelves too. Lately, due mainly to our bulk buying at the farm shop, that cupboard has become more and more crowded. I knew eventually I'd have to bite the bullet and try and sort things out a bit and this past weekend seemed as good a time as any to do that.
Inside said cupboard was a never-been-used-or-even-taken-out-of-its-wrapping electric steamer which I won years and years ago - probably when I was still living in Bristol. If I hadn't used it in all that time I felt the likelihood was that I was never ever going to use it (I've got a perfectly serviceable, if slightly ancient, steamer saucepan.) So I decided to send that to the charity shop - with a note on it explaining what it was and the fact that it had never been used. That freed up some very valuable storage space.
Flushed with my success in the hall cupboard, I moved on to the sideboard - another repository for all sorts of unused cr*p!! In there I found quite a few bits and pieces of vintage china that I'd had stored away for years - most of it was also delivered to the charity shop this morning. However, amongst the clutter I unearthed a set of four rather nice small dinner plates.
These have been washed up and taken into use - and I couldn't have found them at a more convenient time as I've had a few breakages lately and a lot of our china is quite badly chipped now. I refuse to buy anything decent and / or new until we are FINALLY living in our own house so these are not only rather nice to look at (Stardust pattern by Barker Bros.) but darned useful too. I wonder what else I've squirreled away somewhere and forgotten about ? I foresee a major unearthing session going on next week when I get back home from visiting Bristol.
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