lidless & useless

modflowers: my teapotI 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…

modflowers: tea cosy by Molly's MumSo 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?!

modflowers: midwinter teapots by Jessie Taitmodflowers: marimekko oiva teapotmodflowers: sagaform teapotmodflowers: dahlhaus teapotmodflowers: Cath Kidston mushroom teapotmodflowers: orla kiely poppy meadow teapotmodflowers: familia teapotmodflowers: finel enamel teapot, via Planet UtopiaBut 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. ♥

12 thoughts on “lidless & useless

  1. 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…

  2. 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!

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