You might all be thinking, Heather has gone bonkers just taking a picture of an ordinary spoon, but is it so ordinary.
Now I know I'm a bit strange, but I'm almost addicted to spoons. Some people it's alcohol, others it's food and some it's cleaning, but me it's spoons, perhaps I have advance spoonerism and get my worms wrong when I speak, see I did it again.
But I just wish these spoons could talk to me and tell me with whom and where they have been, also the people that have used or eaten with this spoon. It is a desert spoon from the George III period and dates for 1791, not long after Captain James Cook did his first expedition to the Pacific. The Boston Tea Party took place in the American Colonies, and the first fleet of convicts sailed to Australia.
Go on, admit it, you also have addictions, well perhaps not cutlery though. Remember that in olden days rich people gave new born babies a silver spoon, with their name and date of birth on it. The poor never had a silver spoon given to them, hence the old saying of posh people, "That child was born with a silver spoon in their mouth".
See I may be bonkers but you learn a bit of history from me.
@pinkpaintpot As you're an expert spoon polisher Linda, could you come and visit as I have hundreds that need polishing, plus other larger items, perhaps I should organise a polishing party when Covid has gone.
