{"id":22728,"date":"2017-09-23T18:08:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22728"},"modified":"2017-09-23T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:08:27","slug":"a-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=22728","title":{"rendered":"A busy week"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have two annual events which are big numbers. Afternoon tea on our vintage crockery for a hundred and sixty, for a school speech day, and jazz supper for a hundred and thirty. They don’t usually fall on the same week though. This year however the Jazz supper is a week earlier than usual so we had the afternoon tea on Thursday and the jazz supper on Saturday.<\/p>\n

This makes for a lot of work in one week especially as we already had a full week of corporate lunches booked too. It has been non stop.<\/p>\n

We have a hundred and sixty nine trios. The trios are only a part of the washing up. There are cakes stands, sandwich plates, tea pots and coffee pots, sugar bowls, milk jugs and all the silver ware. The trios are my department as they need sorting back into their sets and then storing in plastic boxes.<\/p>\n

First I match them in their sets on our dining table. There are some large sets, some small sets and some single trios. I store them so that the sets are split between each box. Each box has twenty one different trios (and one box has twenty two) and I number the boxes from one to eight with my favourite ones in box one and working down to my least favourite in box eight.<\/p>\n

This means we can pull out one box for a small function and as many boxes as we need to make up bigger functions. This annual function means we pull out all the boxes and do a stock take. This is our fourth year of doing this function.<\/p>\n

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Washing up and sorting the trios<\/p><\/div>\n

What a lot of crockery! Throughout the year as we have some breakages we replace the pieces from local antique shops to keep the numbers about the same for this function. It is the largest function we do on our vintage crockery. It is fun collecting the pieces, slightly less fun washing it up though!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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