A great start to the day

[lizwilliams]

Woken at 6.30 by loud crash. Go to kitchen to discover that Sid has made attempt on the life of the gluten free bread (made because we'd run out of ordinary flour, and resembling a lump of super-dense matter) and knocked it from its resting place onto the teapot, which in turn hit the stone floor and smashed into the proverbial 1000 pieces. This was a fairly recently acquired Bridgewater teapot and I am not pleased.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

See, I find the thing to do with teapots is to break 'em yourself - lids and handles, mostly - before the cats get at 'em. You know they will go the way of all china sooner or later, and if it's your own fault then this saves Shouting At The Cat, which all parties feel to be a bad thing.

Also, broken lids mean that Mac can fish out dead tea-leaves and eat them. Nom-nom-nom.

(Having said which, as he did knock the surviving torso to the floor last week and break off the surviving two inches of handle, I have in fact now invested in a new, whole teapot. I just don't expect it to last. I am the Death of Teapots. I once managed to break the bottom off a teapot, by dropping its lid inside it. Go figure...)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I'm not good with teapots. I brought one all the way back from Uzbekistan and then broke it a year later by knocking its handle off with a cup (!). I think they're just fragile items.

i will be buying a new teapot on Friday. Sigh. And keeping it in a sodding lead box.

[(Anonymous)]

. . .which the cat will break.

Trust me on this. I have cats. With cats, love will always find a way.

And break that, too.

Esther

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Ah, now I'd clicked through to tell mevennen that a story which begins with a cat trying to eat something unlikely and ends with the destruction of a teapot - well, she's obviously channelling you. But you beat me to it.

Also, I love the idea of you as the Death of Teapots (which I picture as a skeletal teapot, with a scythe tucked through its handle).

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

I send you comforting and consoling thoughts.

Most of the breakables that have been broken are down to my mother rather than the cat but you're braver than I. Whenever I lose something significant like that, I tend to weep copious tears.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

I did actually burst into tears (mainly of rage) so you are not the only one.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I gave up on breakable teapots years ago. They just didn't survive one or other of: the cats, the children or me. All mine are now stainless steel. :)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Since T doesn't drink tea, we have a small stainless teapot for everyday use and then this, the ex teapot, for guests:

http://www.emmabridgewater.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=GARD104&cid=POTKIT&language=en-GB

As you can see it was also not cheap! Bloody cats.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! That was a lovely teapot. :(

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

"Was" being the operative!

They sell them in Wells. I can just about afford to replace it. But EVEN SO....!

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

What a pretty teapot. Now I'm coveting teapots.

[caskared.livejournal.com]

"lump of super-sense matter"
Welcome to my (coeliac) world!

Juan the little cat has so far claimed just one cup and one knitting project. Fingers crossed for no more cat-induced distruction!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Sid lurves the weaving and spinning with a big feline lurve. Knots! Hooray!

He is now unrepentantly attacking the staircase.

Sympathies!

[lyonessnyc.livejournal.com]

That *was* a lovely teapot.

I lost my beloved cobalt-blue 6-cup teapot to my kitties on the counter a few months ago. I was in tears too. The culprit was the orange monster in my icon -- William. He's always the one on the counter.

The teapot was only $15 at Target, but they don't sell them anymore. I've tried to find a new lovely blue one on eBay, but something went wrong with the transaction and I didn't get it. :-( I have a 4-cup blue-and-white Japanese one now, but it's just not the same. [sigh]

I love my kitties, but the toll they make us pay sometimes...sheesh.

Re: Sympathies!

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Oh no! shared teapot owning sympathies!

[quarkwiz.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. CATS.

I was curious what a Bridgewater teapot looks like, so off I went to Google. Good lord, what an expensive breakage! Sympathies. Don't kill Sid.

ETA: And I see you've posted a link to a picture of the ex-teapot. How pretty it was. :-/

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

::weeps!::