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Original poster

My name is Huw, I am not an alcoholic, I don't do drugs and you can stick bum sex up your jacksy, my question is far more embarassing...

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:25

It's DP.

He has insisted on this since I've known him - over 20 years.

He has to have tea made in a teapot, and the teapot has to have a tea cosy so he can go back time after time.

An addict, I know, but I still love him

WTF can I do? Tea cosies are vile. We currently have a very faded cack one that desparately needs replacing.

I want a plain lipstick red one but all I can find are hideous things that look like badly knitted woolly hats.

If anyone anyone sends me a link to a knitting pattern, I will kill them.

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Original poster
HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:35

LittleBella - as a fellow tea-pot lover (you freak),how do you keep your tea warm?

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HerBeatitudeLittleBella · 09/04/2009 22:37

And £35!!!!!!!
?

hester · 09/04/2009 22:38

I think your dh sounds adorable. If I wasn't a raddled old dyke, I'd take him off your hands.

HerBeatitudeLittleBella · 09/04/2009 22:38

I don't.

I only put a bit in and then I top up regularly and expect the second round not to be as good as the first.

No more than one return trip, your DH has got it all wrong I fear.

differentEggD · 09/04/2009 22:38

doesn't this look evil

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:39

Now Egg, yes I grant you it's vile, but and very importantly, I can appreciate cosies (even the bleeding word makes me want to chuck up) with a hole for the handle.

Our current 'design' (hollow laugh) is bereft of hole so burns your bleeding hand off...

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EffiePerine · 09/04/2009 22:39

this one has a bobble

blogs.mirror.co.uk/blag-blog/2008/12/bag-yourself-a-brilliantly-sea.html

GentleOtter · 09/04/2009 22:39

Carmen Miranda?

fryalot · 09/04/2009 22:39

Huw, I was perfectly serious with the first one - the one that dosn't look like a tea cosy.

Then I started getting a tad silly

EffiePerine · 09/04/2009 22:40

is this acceptable?
www.johnlewis.com/230478266/Product.aspx

edam · 09/04/2009 22:40

Ooh, if you get fed up with him, I'll do you a swap! As long as he actually makes the tea... Would be lovely to live with someone who understands the need to go back for a second cup.

Original poster
HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:42

Hester, as long as you provided a warm teapot, not sure he'd care...

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:44

I think Tiff may have the solution...with her thermal teapot new-fangledness...

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MrsMcCluskey · 09/04/2009 22:49

Huw I am with your DH on the tea pot thing.
But have to agree tea cosies are fugly.

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 22:56

Sqonk, your 1st one is fine, I like that.

Edam he makes tea all day long...he just has no tea-cosy-stylee.

Call me paranoid, but GentleOtter, EggD and Peachy I think you are all the same person.

Effie - DP would love that (no fecking way)

Dibbler, now you are the tea-cosy momma!! I love your 2nd choice (mainly because it's the best of a god-awful bunch)

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hester · 09/04/2009 22:59

Excellent - does he put up shelves? Get rid of spiders? If so, I'll happily turn for him.

And, just to up my offer, you should know that I do actually own one of those thermal insulated teapot thingies - not a newfangled one, but an original art deco one. I also have a new china teapot and I am fully prepared to knit it a cosy if that gets my bins emptied.

[hester suddenly realises this is beginning to sound suggestive in ways that she feels less than comfortable with ]

edam · 09/04/2009 23:04

Right, well if he's not taken with Hester's very kind offer, CAT me! (As an added incentive, I deal with the spiders round here, so he has no reason to worry he'll be too busy with spider duty to have enough time to make tea.)

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 23:06

"Get rid of spiders? If so, I'll happily turn for him."

ah

sorry.

I knew there was 'yang' to his weirdy tea-cosy 'ying'. I have a bit of an hysterical loathing of spiders tbh...oh yes, and he puts the bins out.

But he also snores, belches, farts and can't cook...

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 23:08

Edam, he gets rid of spiders, but (and he will never admit this) doesn't like their legs, the way they scuttle around or tbh anything about them.

I fear you may be his ideal woman.

How, just how, could you wreck my family over repeated cups of tea??

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TheWiltedBoxOfRoses · 09/04/2009 23:09

Here you go! Just what you wanted

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HuwEdwards · 09/04/2009 23:17

It's a billy-bargain, Wilted, thanks. It's either that one, dibbler's 2nd suggestion or squonk's thermal tea-pot

I love each and every one of you. No I do, really.

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Kewcumber · 09/04/2009 23:22

bollocks to that - just wrap a big bath towel around it and then you can even pretend the tea pot doesn't exist (and that its just a towel on the table) and he will be happy becasue it will keep said teapot nice and warm.

The perfect solution.

beanieb · 09/04/2009 23:27

G'wan, you know you want to

beanieb · 09/04/2009 23:29

is it wrong to like these?

mejon · 10/04/2009 09:32

I got a lovely red and white spotted one from Whittards at the beginning of the year. It cost me £4 I think. Unfortunately they've now closed down though I'm not sure if the sale shops are still going.

DH has recently started drinking tea and I thought it might be nice to buy him a teapot (and a cosy to go with it!). I admit I was wrong...

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