What Do You Wish You Brought Or Left Behind
Jun 18th 2021, 8:30 pm
#46
Tea Drinker
Joined: Nov 2006
Location: Kamloops, BC
Posts: 5,387
Re: What Do You Wish You Brought Or Left Behind
We are still eating off of a M&S Andante Square crockery set. These are the same plates we shipped over 14 years ago!
Jun 19th 2021, 12:59 am
#47
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,982
Re: What Do You Wish You Brought Or Left Behind
I'm still using the china i started collecting in 1978. Its moved with me from NW3, NW6, HA1, various parts of Bedfordshire. Why wouldn't I bring it to Ontario too?
Jun 19th 2021, 3:32 am
#48
BE Forum Addict
Joined: Feb 2013
Location: BC, Canada
Posts: 3,874
Re: What Do You Wish You Brought Or Left Behind
We came with only clothes, books, art work, and wedding presents, having left the UK about 10 days after our wedding in 1967. Neither of us had lived anywhere but home or in furnished digs.
We are still using the Royal Doulton 12 setting china service, dinner and tea, that OH's mother gave us for our wedding. I have replaced the sugar bowl (lucky to find one over here), and added 6 extra dinner plates from a shop selling pieces from long discontinued china sets.
That set has been our only china used every day, and for dinner parties, we have never replaced it, and everything except the dinner plates are still in almost perfect condition. It has been put in a dishwasher for at least the last 40 years.
Says a lot for Royal Doulton China
Not only that, but we still have glassware from our wedding, as well as the flatware set plus another set that was given to use about 40 years ago.
All our furniture was bought up here in Canada, mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s ........... and mainly solid teak from the Danish importers that were common back then. Plus items added from IKEA during their good periods for furniture.
We are still using the Royal Doulton 12 setting china service, dinner and tea, that OH's mother gave us for our wedding. I have replaced the sugar bowl (lucky to find one over here), and added 6 extra dinner plates from a shop selling pieces from long discontinued china sets.
That set has been our only china used every day, and for dinner parties, we have never replaced it, and everything except the dinner plates are still in almost perfect condition. It has been put in a dishwasher for at least the last 40 years.
Says a lot for Royal Doulton China
Not only that, but we still have glassware from our wedding, as well as the flatware set plus another set that was given to use about 40 years ago.
All our furniture was bought up here in Canada, mainly in the late 1960s and early 1970s ........... and mainly solid teak from the Danish importers that were common back then. Plus items added from IKEA during their good periods for furniture.
