Oh look. a Gransnet tea towel. Aaaarrrgh!

I have never taken to my dishwasher Ariadne I do use it occasionally after a big family meal or the likes but I actually enjoy the whole washing up "thing" staring out into the garden........ dreaming.

Don't use tea towels very much - the dishwasher does most things, and anything else is washed up in the utility room and drains dry. In the end.

I've hooked a couple of friends into this sad endeavour.. ... one is a Californian, the other an Aussie - both now stalk the world looking for teatowels!

In the gift shop at the royal palace in Stockholm the snooty assistant said they didn't sell such things ... I took great delight in saying that Buckingham Palace sell 'em!

I have got so many tea towels I find it hard to close the two drawers they occupy. And I use only the same five on a daily basis.

How lovely Riverwalk I have my old faithfulls that are used time and time again and some lovely special ones that I can't bear to use as they are just too pretty. My favourites are sheep in the snow, beach huts, a lobster and and the address side of an old postcard. Sad isn't it?

I have a confession .... I love teatowels and make it a mission wherever I go in the world to buy one for my sister and she does the same for me .

It started as joke about 15 years ago but now I'm hooked.

Unlike Gillyblob I actually use mine so they're a very practical gift to give and receive.

I have strict criteria that they have to meet: either made locally (some chance!) or have an obvious picture of the place/city.

I could wax lyrical about the various ones I've bought and received ....... John Steinbeck' house, Shakespeare's house, Stonehenge, MOMA New York, Gold Hill (the street in the Hovis advert) ........ shall I continue?

Design the cover for the next Gransnet book they put on the market?

You could at least turn the thong round when its time to change it. The tea towel would be rather damp. Who is making these articles? did I miss something? We could sketch ourselves and send to GN (as infant/junior schoolchildren do for tea towel design. what do you think. Or it could be filled with GNetters sayings and quotes.

merlotgran no it wouldn't.

Oh perlease! A tea towel!! I am lost for words! Is this the WI? Have dishwashers not been invented? What can they be thinking of!?

I think the winning designer should get royalties not just a few books and a tea towel .

merlot You should try and market that.

Perhaps a GN dibber thing to help with 'fat finger syndrome?

I love pinnies jingle the frilly the better! I happen to have a passion for tea towels too and have my favourites that I can't possibly use to dry the dishes. Sorry.

A granny in a witch's hat wearing a thong would be a great design for a tea towel

Can't draw though.

Anything but a flipping tea towel!

What? Where?

What about a Gnet thong instead?