Have you got a favourite mug?

I always use the same cup every morning for spring water to take with my medications.

Then I regularly use these two for tea and coffee throughout the day.

I bought them a few years ago at a French motorway service station.

These mugs are so charming! I am very impressed that you have kept them intact for several years. I find the type of mug or cup really affects my enjoyment of the drink - the worst for me being plastic or Tupperware cups. They seem to taint the contents and there is no aesthetic pleasure to be gained from looking  at them. 

The size of mug changes the taste as well, to big and not sweet enough, too big and the tea seems to be weaker, even after a longer  brewing time, 

Exact volume to tea sugar milk ratio must be adhered to Lol.

Names for the part of the spoon that joins the bowl to the stem: neck, shoulder, transition, curve, bend, bolster

Sunflower said:

Milk in before or after?

There is a reason to put milk in before the tea when using a teapot.

The milk helps take the temperature down when the tea is  poured, so the very fine bone china will not crack and spill scalding tea.

I always used to insist on sugar before milk, milk before tea. 

And I always like tea in a proper tea cup with a saucer.  And using leaf tea.  Something civilised about the whole ritual!

I was a child of the 60s so probably grew up using 1950s cutlery. I remember my grandparents' cutlery particularly vividly. That was probably earlier 1930s/1940s

Avoiding eating utensils you despise  makes lots of sense to me. There's a particular bowl I love eating out of and which I should really use every day. It's currently stuck at the back of the cupboard. If I clear the inferior crockery out of the way I will actually be able to use it!  

Yes far left for me, looks balanced, not overly round or to big, not a fussy handle,,,I actually have a teaspoon with the BL logo on it, British Leyland  canteen Lol.

I will post pictures later, my knives for most things are thick handled stainless steel, non serrated, long blade, 1958,,,That kind of era, 

Yes far left for me, looks balanced, not overly round or to big, not a fussy handle,,,I actually have a teaspoon with the BL logo on it, British Leyland  canteen Lol.

I will post pictures later, my knives for most things are thick handled stainless steel, non serrated, long blade, 1958,,,That kind of era, 

I was a child of the 60s so probably grew up using 1950s cutlery. I remember my grandparents' cutlery particularly vividly. That was probably earlier 1930s/1940s