A retro dinner

It was Rhiannon's birthday on Friday, 26! How did I get to be so old? To celebrate we were having dinner and to make it that little bit different we were going back to the 70s. 

We had the 70's dinner service in the form of my still held onto Poole pottery, 70's music and of course 70's clothes. All okay for the oldies but a little bit more difficult for the younger members of the family as none of them were actually around at the time but a good effort was made all the same. Lots of blue eyeshadow for the girls, dungarees for me and a lovely jumper for dad.

Rhiannon is the one in the middle, yes I know she only looks like she should be in school but she really is 26, well I guess strictly speaking she is still in school, but as a teacher and not a student!

Same picture but with a bit more of a 70s feel.

For hor d'oeuvres there were twiglets and things on sticks.

To start prawn cocktail and for the non prawn eater egg mayonnaise.

Main course was Chicken Maryland, with all the trimmings. So fried chicken (with neon coloured bread crumbs), fried bananas, corn fritters, salad and jacket potatoes.

And for desert homemade sherry trifle.

After dinner the poker set came out and at about 1.45am I finally got to bed.

Good fun and definitely a nice change having a bit of a theme. 

A bit of a bargain!

I had a bit of luck at the auction yesterday. 

At the moment I've got a bit of a thing going on for Poole pottery, having last month acquired my first piece. But also in the auction last month was a Poole dinner set for oh way over my budget, three lots of it in total. Not fantastic colours its true, 'mushroom & sepia' maybe a bit dull, especially when the things that I really like are the oranges, browns and reds which can be very expensive, but the lots were interesting all the same.

Anyway they were back in the auction this month as one lot and again they didn't sell. So after the event I put in a bid, won it and picked it all up today.

So here it is, slightly retro, maybe a bit vintage, maybe a bit boring, but its mine to keep or sell, to do whatever I want with and I haven't quite decided which it is to be yet. So maybe I ought decide after a dinner party in January, see how it works out, a whole dinner set instead of mismatching plates etc and that will be a new experience.

2 handled soup bowl

A fruit bowl, whatever that is..

vegetable tureen x 2

Tea set

Coffee set

Now to put things in perspective see the little cruet set below, we looked it up on the internet today and to replace it at replacement china shops online (with the top of the mustard pot missing!), it would be £60!! and I paid less than that for the whole lot, for over 100 pieces of it, with 6 of everything - wow.

So all in all a definite bargain wouldn't you say?