Mugs
Mugs? No I am not referring to Johnson and his fawning Tory cabinet but to the mugs in our kitchen cupboard. Literal ceramic drinking vessels. Those kind of mugs. Can you guess how many mugs we had in our cupboard? Well let me tell you. Twenty eight ... thirty one ... thirty four! That's how many. Thirty four! We may not be rich in paper money but we are rich in mugs. That is sufficient mugs for two football teams with all the named substitutes too. Putting mugs in the cupboard has sometimes proven to be a dangerous balancing act. In the past couple of years, two mugs plunged to their untimely deaths. You get attached to familiar mugs. The death of a favourite mug can be very distressing Well yesterday I decided to grasp the bull by the horns or more accurately - the mugs by the handles. I lined them all up, forgetting that a few were still hiding in the dishwasher. It was time to cull them. We aimed to reduce our mug collection by eight. It was like picking scho...
