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Last November I wrote a little piece entitled Where Is That Secret Place That Cutlery Goes bemoaning the fact that where there were once six dinner forks taking an inventory will suddenly turn up only five. For all I know this is a universal property of cutlery.
Whatever it is, yesterday’s discovery has left me bemused, confused and somewhat at a loss. I’ll explain.
A few years ago we bought a new set of cutlery – named ‘Roma’ and produced by Royal Doulton. That’s it in the picture. It came with six of everything. As my item last year said, cutlery has an annoying and secret habit of disappearing and at that time we were missing a fork.
At last I have found a source of ‘loose’ cutlery where I can replace the errant piece but before ordering it thought it best to take an inventory just in case another piece had joined the fork in it’s secret place where cutlery goes. The result was an eye-opener:
- 6 Dinner Knives
- 6 Dessert Knives
- 4 Dinner Forks
- 5 Dessert Forks
- 6 Soup Spoons
- 7 Dessert Spoons
See – I can deal with the missing forks. I have no idea where they are but I accept their disappearance. What rattled me was, of course, the seventh spoon which raises the awkward question – just what the hell is actually going on in my cutlery drawer
They get stolen by Annoia, the god of things that get stuck in the cutlery drawer.
@wonkotsane: Well remembered! I don’t recall her being able to turn forks into spoons though but I guess it might be possible…
somethings are best left as they are…..I seem to have aquired several cheese knives…as I don’t eat cheese I’m a tad surprised.
thuds last blog post..Lovely people.
@thud: See… I used to have one of those too…
How are the fires doing over there?
Andy….as you know temps have been over 100 but the air quality pretty bad..no blue skys and spectacular sunsets…freaking the locals out but it isn’t raining and thats all I care about.
Thuds last blog post..True Brit 11
Andy, Like you we want to buy additional items of Roma cutlery but cannot find a source for loose items. Can you tell us where you found such a source please.
Tony and Veronica Wintin
@Tony: My apologies – I really meant to do that. You need to talk to Mary Crisp at Cutlery Search. My new pieces arrived just a couple of days ago and all was well. Good luck!