About this time of year, the hop industry gets into top gear, and arrangements for the harvest are pretty frenetic!
When dad was engineer for a huge hop farm there were several other managers going about their various tasks, and one of these chaps, Ernie G, was in charge of providing everything needed for the various hop-pickers' camps dotted around the countryside, and there was a lot of catering eqipment needed for the hundreds of people who were bringing in the harvest.
Ernie and dad were special friends, and could banter away for ages, and I have an abiding memory of him telling dad that he was currently working on sourcing the 'Crockerware and Cuttleware', which made for much jollity all round!
And he gave me this serviette ring for my christening, so that was a nice thought wasn't it!
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One day it'll be an heirloom.
I hope so, AK!
It used to be dented all round when I used to sit on it...
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