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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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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

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Rusty
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