I knew that DH had a strange foible......

I can agree with favourite China cups or mugs.......must be done.......we have a shelf each of favourite cups and mugs.......that's maybe going a bit far though ? .
Also I won't use DH's and he's not allowed to use mine.
When the DD's visit they all use mine !

I love china too nelliemoser and have to restrain myself from looking at the undersides of teacups when at others's houses. Luckily most of my friends know about my penchant for china.
Is much stuff still made at the potteries? I was recently horrified to find that a replacement Spode veg dish was made in China and was now very nasty thick quality.

I have now reached the point where I look at the bottom of cafe china to see if it was made in the Potteries. I trust you're not one of those on the 'tea drinking habits' thread that always leaves some tea in the bottom of your cup

Penchant will be my " word of the day" * nellie* . I often pick one up on GN.

Well I can't afford Moorcroft.

Newquay I an not a potteries person as such but I have lived here about for 29yrs. I have now reached the point where I look at the bottom of cafe china to see if it was made in the Potteries.

I have a penchant for Masons ironstone Mandalay.

I've loved Denby since I first married, I still use original items given to me in the 70s. I will only drink tea from a Denby cup and saucer, my daughter keeps one at her house just for me. I remember keeping a special bone china cup and saucer for my mum as she thought Denby too clunky. Tea has to be made in a teapot too, can't stand tea bags in a cup or a mug.

I'll drink coffee out of anything!

Oh for goodness sake-they're either bone china or earthenware, not pottery! And Wedgwood doesn't have an 'e' in the middle.
You can tell I'm a born and bred Potter! Lol!

I have favourite teaspoons thatgags, with long handles.Did you get yours from IKEA?

Well, I have to say I have my favourite mugs too ;) any will do as long as they are bone china and not earthenware- honestly, it does make a difference to the taste
Yes, it does granjura; I have to have tea in a bone china mug or cup but I don't mind coffee in an earthenware mug, preferably one of the Denby ones - or it can be a china one!.

But not any old mug. DH likes any old mug as long as it's a large one.

I have a favourite teaspoon too, for eating yoghurts or other such desserts. I also have a favourite tray. The two trays are almost identical, just with slightly different scenes painted on them, so I haven't admitted to DH that one of them is my favourite because he'd think (quite rightly) that I'm bonkers. So I have to seethe silently if he uses 'my' tray

nelliem, aha! another person who doesn't like nose bangers! It's the same with wine glasses. I like inverted cone shaped ones that are widest at the top.

DH likes the thick chunky ones, I have to have the bone china ones. Sorted.

My OH has a horribly heavy pottery Quickbrew mug with an awful motif on it he tends to use it for cocoa. It is revolting but I have not yet managed to stage a suitably convincing accident with it.
I have smuggled some of his mugs out to charity shops or the bin.

I like wide bone china mugs, the narrow ones feel as if you are going to bang your nose on them. I am lucky to live within a few miles away from the Churchill China outlet shop in the Potteries. Lovely bone china mugs.

My favourite mug was a present from my nephew. It's a cream-coloured mug with 'giddy aunt' in red letters on the side.

Gives me something to live up to!

DH often uses the same mug all day which I find quite disgusting. When we make tea or coffee my cup is always on the right and his on the left beside the kettle. DH moves the spoon from side to side whereas I stir.

Me neither, kittylester, not about mugs or cups anyway. Now if we were talking about which foot has to land on the floor after coming down a flight of steps.....

As I said, I have no foibles!

I hate anything other than China mugs and they have to be wide. I have a collection of 5 and am happy to use any of them at anytime. DH has coffee in narrow China mugs. We have a set of china ones that are all different but part of the same range for when we have visitors.

I get quite stressed if someone uses the spoon from the tea jar to stir their tea and have to hunt it down. It's usually my favourite son in law, who has helpfully made a pot of tea for everyone.

I have a favourite teaspoon too. Definitely have daytime and evening mugs. Daytime ones are a bit chunkier than evening mugs because we're usually sitting down and staying in one place in the evening, so there's less chance of a nicer mug getting broken.

Good heavens! A whole new way of looking at cups and mugs has opened up in front of me. I've always taken whatever's closest. I think DH has specific mugs for tea and coffee but as he's generally the one to make it, I leave him to it.

DH has to have a mug that's white inside. He drinks black tea and says he can't see how strong it is in a coloured mug. I prefer a china mug -especially my little rose patterned Cath Kidston one that a friend gave me for a birthday some years ago. It's just the right size. I have to have my special fork though, it's actually a spork with a serrated edge designed for bbqs and parties. Again, it's just the right size. Hate huge unwieldy cutlery although I have the obligatory canteen that comes out at Xmas

I used to have some mugs which were identical apart from some having the word "tea" on and some having "coffee". Very useful when making more than 1 drink. One day a plumber pointed out that each mug had"tea" on one side and "coffee" on the other. Doh!!!!

H and I also rinses and reuses the same mug throughout the day. H and I both have our own mugs. Makes sense to me as there's no mixing up which mug has sweetener and which hasn't. We have a set of 6 for visitors and they are all red and white but with different designs so easy to tell whose is whose.
I did buy a pretty cup and saucer for afternoon tea but it's in the cupboard and I forget to use it and just use my mug which sits next to the kettle when not in use.

GreyDuster I have cutlery that can't be matched. It's French and called Harlequin . Drives the men in the family mad when they are setting the table. I like bone china and was overjoyed to find a shop in Whtby which sells the plain white ones which companies buy to decorate for various tourist venues. They were six for £10. Otherwise fancy china mugs have to have some design of lemons.