Do you have a special cup/mug for tea of coffee that you just have to use?

Thank you, Far North! Perhaps I'll get some fondant fancies and have a tea party - for one (I love fondant fancies!)

Get that tea service out and use it, Greyduster. You are special enough for it and the queen can catch up with you later.

I have a Spode Italian tea service which I keep in case The Queen drops by. It hasn't seen the light of day for years - I think she's avoiding me. Perhaps she caught me using tea bags last time.....!

I have two favourite delicate china mugs which my son and Dil bought me from the V&A museum.

I keep them for visitors mostly but I have one with the words Special Nan on it with a cute Teddy Bear holding a flower.

Before I became a nan I would have thought this was a bit "daft" but now of course I drink from my Special Nan mug with pride. (smile)

I have a mug which is used for all my brews, given to me by my youngest son when he was about 8 years old (I think from the pound shop). He is now 33 years old. It is decorated with cornflowers but red not blue! My sons and grandchildren live in terror of it being broken as they believe it may break my heart. I love the mug, bleach the tea stains out regularly and monitor the hairline crack in the glaze but let's face it I would rather have my family than any mug,
no matter how special.

Don't worry Terribull I too have a special bowl. I also like tea from a China mug but not coffee. I have another mug for milky drinks. Now I am really worried !!!! ��

Looks like bone ash is still on the go :
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blue chicken mug - Emma thingy.

My coffee comes in bone china violets cup and saucer, chocolate comes in bone china violets mug and also have same for bowl, tea plate and dinner plate and they are all MINE and DH doesn't even think about looking at them. OCD me no of course not!

I do have a special mug lol I have many special mugs, of which I get out each time the person that bought them for me sees that I am using their particular mug so as not to offend if I don't like it lol lol.If youet what I mean �������� lol.

One? I have three. There is the great big double sided mug I make my morning lemon tea in. It means two mugs of tea (essential first thing) in one mug ( it used to be a big black one with clay liquorice allsorts stuck on it, but that got chipped and now lives on the window sill); there is the mug given to me by DD specifically for drinking my afternoon mug of tea and there is the lovely heavy studio pottery one with different glazes used to make an impressionistic moorland scene all round the mug with clay sheep stock on it, which I use for the rest of my drinks

All my mugs are plain white but I have a couple of special mugs that GC gave me with Grandma on, nobody but nobody touches them.

Pompa! Some things you have to compromise on! If I stop for a drink at all, I'm afraid it's the plastic cup on top of the flask! I like your image though!

Greyduster, I now have an image of you sitting on the river bank with your tea in a Royal Doulton cup with your little finger sticking out.

I have a mug that GS bought me with Super Gran on it. No-one else is allowed to drink from it! I am, however, fussy about mugs. I like bone china; can't bring myself to drink out of straight sided pottery mugs. DD bought me a Wedgewood cup and saucer to keep at their house because they only have quite large mugs which I don't like. Ditto, DS always brings out a cup and saucer when I visit him, but they are Denby and you could swim in them! Far too fussy for my own good!

But many of our mugs are personal to me and Mrs. Grumppa; I have never drunk from her Emma Bridgewaters.

I've had several favourite mugs over the years. They're always the ones that get broken!

No.

I've just remembered a Scottish RAF colleague, whose regulation mug had painted on it "IT'S NO YOURS - IT'S MINES" - Lowland Scots for 'Get yer own', I suppose!

My afternoon Assam I drink from a red mug, emblazoned with a crown and the legend:
KEEP CALM
OH
WHO ARE
WE
KIDDING?

My multiple doses of coffee in the morning are sucked from a black mug with the legend "Atheist" on it...

I never get them the wrong way round!

I do have a couple of favourite mugs.
When i worked in a day centre I had a large enamelled tin mug, everyone (other than me ) hated it, as it was so stained. However my view was that if we ever ran out of tea, I only had to fill it with hot water and it would brew from the stains.

pompa

BONE ASH. WOW could this be another use for our loved ones ashes ?

Does bone china still have bone ash in it? I thought that was replaced nowadays.is there a knowledgeable person about?