I don’t generally use a teapot when there’s just me at home.
Despite my love of Earl Grey, I find I just can’t get through a whole big pot to myself. The caffeine spins me out a bit, and I end up spending too much time in the loo.
Whilst my family was visiting though, we had the teapot out every day. It survived a whole six weeks of intensive tea consumption without incident.
But yesterday it’s luck ran out.
I broke the teapot lid. It just jiggled itself out of my butter fingers whilst I, grasping at the air like a ninny, watched it smash to smithereens on the stone kitchen floor.
Now it is lidless, and as a teapot, useless (although it might end up with a plant in it). Although it wasn’t a special teapot, I shall miss it.
Filling up a teapot when friends come over is just so much more hospitable than dangling a bag in a cup, isn’t it?
And of course without it, I have no use for my lovely tea cosy…
So I’m on the lookout for a new pot.
My other half knows how my mind works. He asked me earlier whether I had done any teapot research yet.
Well, of course I had – what does he take me for?!
But I haven’t found the perfect pot yet. So I am still on the hunt.
If you see a pretty pot, be it vintage or new, floral or stylishly modern, please send me a link.
I’m off now to put the kettle on…
It’s time for a spot of bag-dangling. ♥
If you were desperate to use it (ie, influx of a horde of thirsty friends), you could put a small saucer on top. You’d need to hold it on while you poured, but it would keep the heat in. And it would give your tea cosy a purpose in life…
I might have to resort to this Kate! Although knowing me, I’ll forget and break the saucer too!
Welcome to my world! I am terminally clumsy. Like you, I have a nice, plain white porcelain teapot. I dread the day when I break a bit off it. I just discovered your blog today, and want to tell you that I’m very much enjoying everything I’ve read so far.
Thanks Kate! Lovely to have you aboard!
That white one with the cork looks a bit surgical…..or worse!
Haha! I hadn’t thought of it like that! I do prefer the Familia mugs to the teapot, definitely!
Today I shall mostly be using the word ‘ninny’. I recommend other to do the same!
Haha! I would advocate caution, however, before calling anyone else a ninny. People generally just aren’t that keen on it, I find. 😉
Oh I love my tea pot so much and would cry if it or any of the matching cups broke!
It was a 21st gift from my husbands grandmother who has now passed away.
I also love the word Ninny and am forever calling my children Ninny’s!
Oh you’ve found some fabulous specimens there! I use a lovely Meakin one as a utensil holder – gets more use that way than as a teapot as I’m a tea in a mug kind of girl 🙂
Oh I do love a teapot … you’ve found some beautiful ones here … I have the Sagaform one and can vouch for it … great size especially for when friends are visiting … Bee xx
Good to know Bee! x