RustyRaven

I think there needs to be both soup spoons and desert spoons. I don't really understand why soup works better out of a round spoon and more solid things work better with oval, but it does.

The set I'm getting had a version with just the pieces I want for 6 place settings, but I found an 8 place set with the extra knives & forks being sold on clearance for cheaper than the small set.

My mother probably should have gone that route, seeing she moved to using small plates instead of proper dinner plates. It drives me batty. You don't need to fill the entire plate with food, but having a larger plate gives you room to do things like cut your meat without accidentally knocking it off the side.

I've known them as parfait spoons. Since long before I knew what parfait was.

I have a full set of eight long-handled teaspoons which are very well used, and also use lots of standard teaspoons, I've got a couple of cutlery sets worth in the drawer and don't plan to part with any of them.

The new cutlery set I ordered has two sizes of knives and forks. Perfect for those multi-course dinners we all sit down to every night.

It has made me wonder whether anyone these days actually uses/wants multiple cutlery sizes or if it's completely outdated outside of formal restaurants etc.?

Mostly it just brings to mind my mother's constant explaining to anyone that went near her cutlery drawer that they needed to make sure they got out the big knives and forks to set the table with. As far as I can tell she never used the smaller ones, they were just there to stress her out that someone might actually put them on the table by mistake. I tried to get her to move them away somewhere else so she didn't have to worry about it, but she never did.

I stayed up working until 7am, then slept the rest of the morning in preparation for working again tonight.

Two 12 hour night shifts certainly make it feel like I'm having a very loooong weekend too!

I sometimes miss having a long weekend at the same time as everyone else, but condensing all the work into 12 hour shifts basically means I get a long weekend every week, so I can't really complain! And they pay out the day off in leiu for the public holiday, so the extra pay this week is a bit nice as well.

I was thinking about buying a few more food storage containers and somehow ended up ordering a cutlery set instead.

The fruit & veg box has been delivered. There are some wildly disparate potato sizes this time, and some annoyingly long carrots that don't quite fit in my carrot container.

The grapes are delicious and it was a struggle to not just eat them all for breakfast.

Eating the whole thing in one go seems a big much. I think at least two meals.

I heard that phone really sucks.

The glass plate I made has just turned 7 (according to Facebook)

That was a very enjoyable afternoon class, and the plate is now my fruit bowl in the kitchen. It doesn't feel like seven years ago. I spent a couple of months long service leave staying at home and doing lots of classes and activities locally, it was a lot of fun.

Some people will steal anything that's not bolted down (and sometimes they'll steal that too, along with the bolts).

I find it easier to deal with such despicable acts if I anthropomiphise to a ridiculous degree - your doormat has just reached an age where it wants more independence and has set off to travel the world. It's out there somewhere living it's best life, getting to experience other doorsteps and being stepped on by a wide array of interesting people.