yes, but that's no bloody good if you've already unwrapped it and spread some on your toast this morning at breakfast. My butter dish is not calibrated...

Ooh, there you go again being all posh and stuff.

I'm with Nigella on this one... if a recipe calls for butter, just put the whole bloody block in. Nothing suffers from having too much butter in it.

I only put that in in case my mum reads this thread. It lives in the remains of its paper in the door of the fridge, usually, unless we have somebody coming to tea or something. We've even got a toastrack, too, somewhere.

My nan sent me one of them but HID insists on having hot buttered toast so it doesn't get used. But I have fond memories as a kid sitting at the breakfast table helping my granddad to go over the Sporting Life while munching on endless rounds of toast out of a toast rack.

Oh dear, standards are slipping. I now have doubts about the separate marmalade knife.

My dear old thing, your standards are beyond merely slipping. They've descended the cliff of vulgarity into the chasm of doilies and serviettes. One should know that marmalade is served with a spoon, not a knife.

Now there's a conundrum. I would imagine marmalade spoons are too old-fashioned to be metric. An ideal marmalade spoon probably holds around 2/3 fl oz of marmalade, or 1 fl oz if there's a decent bit of rind sticking out.

When I was a student someone gave me a silver preserve dish for a present. WTF were they thinking a university student would want with one of them? Anyway I took it back to Bergdorf and Goodman and got a small fortune (for me) for it. If memory serves me correctly I bought a Playstation with the money plus still had enough to go a for a boozy skiing weekend in Vermont

For taking, a spoon will do as good as a knife, but for spreading, I think you'll find the knife is the superior implement. Now what are these doilies and serviettes to which you refer? Never mind, I'll ask Carson...

An original Playstation?

Yep either that or Nintendo 64, can't quite remember.

Given your Xmas wish for a PS4, I thought that you might have a royal flush of PS PS2 PS3.

I never got a PS3, too busy fishing.

Was that something to do with messrs Gouldman, Stewart, Godley & Creme and the myth or not myth?

Them or the Lovin' Spoonful...