Checking organic and genetically modified from the label

 I wrote this comic poem for myself as a reminder

Fruit. Photo by Angela Lansbury. Copyright.

Fruit is genetically modified

Disease resistant, and more besides

I think that we can all agree

What others avoid, leaves more for me

For those who fret, or cry or sigh

It's my belief you will not die

But if you really want to know

The number eight will tell you so

To identify modified, you are are able

By reading the numbers on the label

Four digits means food's the same as before

Five digits organic, starts with eight - added more 

I wish they'd do the same to me

Make me the best that I can be

Taller, slim and young and wise

With high IQ and chameleon eyes.

-ends-

Written by Angela Lansbury Saturday 18 2022.

Comic poem on genetically modified fruit and how to identify it by Angela Lansbury 18 2022.

That's my photo of fruit. Really? Can I be sure? Can I prove it? Yes. 

My photos tend to have the warm colours of red, orange or pink somewhere, and lots of circles or curves. I have two of everything, hence the round woved placemat and the plastic placemat. My husband likes earth colours, neutral colours, but I like warmer colours, rainbow colours, so the pale brown neutral Denbyware china handled cutlery was his choice, but the blue Denbyware plate is from a couple of oddments in the same style which I bought later.

Those blue plates are Denbyware seconds in a discontinued line, same shape as the creamy brown Seville pattern. I bought the blue in a charity shop in the UK and you cannot find any more for love nor money. The brown handled cutlery is also Denbyware seconds, bought from our wedding list in 1976, again almost impossible to obtain. The plastic placemats with the oranges were bought from a shop in Singapore and I cannot find any more to match them. The chance of anybody having and mixing those two sets of discontinued Denbyware and the third odd item, the Singapore discontinued mat are nea

Finding More Crockery suppliers - Collingwood and Trade Winds

I am still hunting for Trade Winds crockery. I did a hunt for Trade Winds. Up popped another crockery supplier on Ebay.

Collingwood.
Tel : 0845

I found Trade Winds under a blog on Spode and a link to Stoke on Trent.

Angela Lansbury

Completing Crockery and Cutlery Sets

Don't be heartbroken if somebody drops your dinner plate on a tile floor.

If you break a china plate or crockery or cutlery you can do a search on the web. If you don't find what you want on eBay or Amazon you may find what you want from specialist suppliers of discontinued sets.

 We have used Replace your china, suppliers of discontinues tableware. Their card lists:
Poole Pottery, Denby, Hornsea, Royal Doulton, marks & Spencer, Wedgwood, Johnson Bros, Noritake and many others, such as Beatrix Potter.

I was unable to find Tradewinds, which I bought twice from Charity shops.

Replace Your China
Meadow View
Corfe Mullen
BH21 3SQ GB

You can pay them through PayPal.

In addition to the cost of the crockery, delivery cost to UK mainland for five plates was £9.50.

China Search
4 Princes Drive
Kenilworth
Warwickshire
CV 8 2FD
email info@chinasearch.co.uk
Tel: 01926 512 402.
www.chinasearch.co.uk

Search service:
Sales adviser 01926 512 402.

They send a thank you card. I noticed that inside they list who packed your order. After I took a photo of the card I realised it showed china cups, saucers and a tea plate!

Keeping Records
If you are sending on to a second address (if you have a second home or property or are relocating and want to take your crockery, save the packing). The delivery notes can be kept in your inventory file or photographed on your computer backup for insurance.


Angela Lansbury
Author of How to get out of the mess you're in.

Bargain gloves for using mobile phones

My New Year's Resolutions
Buy Bargains
Buy Wisely
Buyer Beware

I began the year well with a bargain. I like to shop in the bargain shops: In the UK and elsewhere, Poundland, and Poundstretcher.
I always lose one glove. I end up with lots of left handed pairs. I have tried to start a fashion for wearing odd gloves. Somebody started fashions for odd ear-rings and odd buttons and even restaurants where every chair is different and every diner has different cups and plates. But it doesn't work with the man I married years ago. Judge whether my marriage was my worst buying mistake or best purchase. When we lived on different continents and I was alone I could get away with odd socks hidden under shoes. But now I get the before i go out with you inspection and I'm told, you are wearing odd gloves. I divert to the Watford all day all night shop. It's open 24 hours six days a week. The only time it's shut is Sunday evening and night - something to do with trading laws and allowing staff a day of rest. A handy place if you live in NW London, or are driving north of London or south into London.
To my delight and amazement they have half a dozen pairs of gloves. Not all in one place. Scattered about. Matched up with hats and scarves in sets. More elsewhere in men's clothing sections. Others near checkout. I don't want to pay £10 for a complete set. I want to pay £1 like I would in Poundland.
I eventually find a pair of gloves which are thin with even thinner fingertips for dialling on mobile phones. Only two fingertips are thinner. (I realise I could replace fingertips on old gloves by cutting off fingertips entirely. Only two tips - not all ten - not such a hardship in cold weather. Put your hand in your pocket or walk around with clenched fists. How about fold back tips, cut only half way around. No need for all this. When I get to checkout the gloves which were already under £5 are now reduced to £1 in the January sales, price matching the £1 bargain stores. Hurray for Tesco.