Our camping neighbours have bought this tea towel for a present. The friends they are giving it to loaned them the tent to go camping. Our camping neighbour’s little boy loves miniature railways and spent ages looking at this tea towel blowing in the wind. Lynn
I wanted this tea towel but in the end I gave it to Rob! The Proclaimers: 2016. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/the-proclaimers-2016/
Unfortunately, their tea towel was upside down when they took the picture but it was given to our camping neighbour by her mother years ago. Just picked it out of her drawer to go camping. Gone home before it could be retaken!
Nearly nicked this one that I saw in a holiday cottage. Instead took a photo!
Another fantastic Christmas present. You can see how easily the collection grows!
Even more tea towels at Borough Market. Which will I choose?
Pretty tea towel has many uses
60th Wedding Anniversary present. A photo on a tea towel from their wedding
Some more happy faces getting ‘new’ tea towels but that red one certainly has some stains!
Benjamin and Isabella help with the tea towels
What better setting – strawberries on Strawberry Tea Towel. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2016/09/01/str
Still can’t decide which picture is right for Guest Tea Towel!
Jai looks excited with her new tea towel! The Hen: 2016. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2017/06/29/the-cockerel-and-the-hen-2008/
A new outfit so cheaply made!
Yet another one Jai will inherit. She is so excited!!
A two-sided tabard. Just think how many outfits you could make with 800 tea towels
Chris is Beatrice’s brother. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/the
Trust Me I Am a Morris Dancer: 2014. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2015/09/14/tru
That’s me standing under the tree my mother planted. Mother’s name was Beatrice. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress/com/2017/06/30/the
Proving (with Vermont Tea Towel)
Nothing else to say!
There is a family pose for holding tea towels!
That excitement of getting a new tea towel!
A Delia recipe recommending covering your kedgeree with a tea towel
A present for me from Venezia. I didn’t think I was going to be able to prise it from them!
Jean and the Aberdeen Girl Guides tea towel from many years ago. To read the story go to Myra’s Tea Towel Story
Only use an old tea towel if you are going to dry strawberries!
Benjamin bored with tea towels. Surely you’re not?
‘What a great Christmas present!”
Never knew my family in Italy had an interest in tea towels. Must be genetic!
So this is what a tea towel is for!
Taking photographs of 800 tea towels is a laborious process, especially if the photographer has to take a Comfort Break
Fighting with Isabella over tea towels
1959: On ‘loan’ courtesy of Andrew. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2017/04/28/calendar-tea-towel-19592017/
I love a pile of tea towels
Trying out poses for Guest Tea Towel
Gwyn’s collage made into a tea towel!
Isabella cannot resist sitting on a tea towel!
The great grand children on a tea towel. “I don’t want to use it”
Isabella gets fed up with lack of attention
Andrew is definitely going to have to find a different pose
Andrew is Beatrice’s nephew. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/the
Tea towels are so useful for carrying warm scones
Pete loving strawberry jam with strawberry scones on a strawberry tea towel
Queen’s 90th Birthday: 2016. On ‘loan’ courtesy of Jai. To read the story http://www.myteatowels.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/que
A ‘Tea Towel Selfie’
What more can he say?
A simple tabard is so elegant!
Tea towels are so useful in proving!
Jean reminiscing about the Trefoil Guild with one of her old tea towels
Make sure you only use old tea towels to dry your strawberries. Don’t want to stain those beautiful new ones!!
So many tea towels to choose from!
“They certainly ‘spelt’ out their name at the forefront of milled products”. Quote from Twitter. It was great flour
Is Jai’s excitement wearing off?
Three new tea towels!!
Isabella just doesn’t understand
Holding a Jenner tea towel outside Jenner Department Store in Edinburgh
Admiring my newly acquired East Lothian tea towel
Andrew having discovered a ‘weird’ tea towel in Florence
Isabella likes to help with sorting the tea towels
Tea Towel Blogging with an inspiration from an ‘Emily’ tea towel
I love it when a tea towel is part of a matching set!
I’ve got a Stuart Gardiner!
Even more proving and a different tea towel each time
Sharon’s favourite: Emma Bridgewater Black Dresser tea towel, for display purposes only, never been used
A great present for Gwyn’s mother-in-law
Clare Baird and her stall of tea towels in Edinburgh
Roger and Hamish so pleased to have some new tea towels
Isabella trying to disrupt the blogging process
Freshly picked strawberries with Eggs and Soldiers tea towel
Jean finding the signatures of her two sisters, Myra and Betty, and herself on a millennium tea towel from Ferryhill Church
And another washing line of Andrew’s full of tea towels. I can spot at least two that I have given him
That looks like a large pile of tea towels on the table!
Man enjoying the Lobster Hatchery tea towel at North Berwick – selling from the Beach Huts!
Andrew’s washing line full of tea towels
“We all got a Paralympic tea towel for Mum and Dad for Christmas 2012
It’s a bit like buses: Andrew with another’ weird’ tea towel from Florence
Andrew’s second washing line full of tea towels
Douglas from the The Sorries with one of his tea towels
Christmas Puddings covered with tea towels as recommended by the National Trust
Christine and Izzy with a tea towel that they gave me
Christine with a ‘school’ tea towel from her grandchildren
Christine with her Cornish Treats tea towel
I’m not sure Christine was so fond of this one from Llandudno because she gave it to me
Admiring one of Christine’s newer tea towels
Alan went into the garage and was using this one for wiping his hands. I rescued it!!
Using a tea towel to make a holder for knitting needles
The cats knocked a basket of tea towels over. Hope they are not dirty now!
Isabella trying to hide in a basket of tea towels
Isabella being tipped out of a basket of tea towels
Use old tea towels, dyed with cold tea, to make a puppet
Afghan Puppy for Nottingham Puppet Festival in 2018, made from owls tea towels
Afghan Mummy and Puppy puppets made from old tea towels, dyed with tea
Liz excited to find Nottingham tea towel as she opened the boxes having just moved house (to Nottingham)
Me with Ealing tea towel, in Walpole Park, having just discovered the tree my mother planted in 1958
Theatre Royal Nottingham from a tea towel dated 1974
Ironing a herdy tea towel in new house
lavender tea towel as a cloth for drying fruit
Spotted a tea towel at Gwyn and Pete’s house
Lynn displaying her new tea towel
A new career as a waitress?
Love seeing a basket full of tea towels
Charlotte Berridge’s stall. She designed my Ealing tea towel
Need to be creative with a tea towel when you haven’t got a kitchen
Tea towel as a mat to cover a bedside table made from the microwave box
Jai covered in tea towels. Preparing for the future when she inherits the Museum
Hamish and Lyra reluctantly posing with a tea towel of themselves!
My Pat Albeck book has arrived. It is so good.
Hilary’s line of tea towels. Need ironing!
More of Hilary’s tea towels
Just bought the last calendar tea towel that Pat Albeck designed before she died in 2017
And this is where the Museum contents are housed
Good to have a fitted wardrobe with two lines of hangars
Isabella looking out of the window, sitting on two tea towels
Isabella looking cute on two tea towels
Isabella looking even cuter on two tea towels
Jai has bought me a great new book for my birthday
Reading my birthday book
Eunice and her tea towel
Isaac and his school tea towel
Eunice and two of her tea towels
Ishbel with her Birmingham tea towel, from 1938 with a hook she sewed on. I wish she’d do all mine
Always take a tea towel on holiday with you
Phil and Hannah with Erin and her tea towel from school
Erin gave everyone a tea towel for Christmas, made at her school. Grandparents love it
Liz with her tea towel from Erin
The wind always blows when you are trying to take a photograph of a tea towel
Grandma has decorated a tea towel for Hamish and Lyra
Lyra doesn’t want her photograph taken with a tea towel
What better Christmas present??????
Now this is what I call being able to use a tea towel as a blank canvas. Brilliant painting
Isabella is very fond of Nadiya Hussein’s tea towels
Bargain pack of tea towels for party presents
The Hepworth Gallery for Liz’s Special Birthday, and there was a tea towel
The wind again when I was trying to photograph Ted Baker’s ‘Stand Up to Cancer’ tea towel
Foodie Calendar Tea Towel 2019
Amanda gave me the Kaleidoscope of Colour
A photo shoot and the cat gets in the way
Isabella wrapped in two tea towels
Isabella absolutely refused to move!!
Isabella making a real mess of the tea towels. I am going to have to iron them again
Isabella has disappeared under the pile of tea towels
Isabella very disappointed that I have managed to hang the tea towels on the line
Isabella still finding more tea towels to sit on while I am photographing my holiday ‘loot’
If you are going on a picnic, tea towels are useful to wrap the bread knife in
Tea towels also make a great table cloth
For a picnic bench you need more than one tea towel to cover the table
It was a long table. Good job I thought to bring a lot of table cloths
It’s the wind again
Nice tea towel in the holiday flat
A Nicola Miles design. I love it
Heavy Metal tea towel, on ‘loan’ from Twitter
Tea towel on Sunbeam II
Isabella likes Con’s tea towels
Can’t get Isabella off
Still can’t move Isabella from a pile of tea towels
At least I can be proud of Isabella’s love of tea towels
“Get off Isabella”
Tea towels make a good tray cloth when you are caravanning
The wind again
Liz is very envious of my new Devon tea towel
Isabella is also envious of my Devon tea towel
Isabella and the Beth Chatto gardens tea towel
What more can you want than wiping up with Mao Tse Tung?
Con has given me some of her tea towels
Roasted flamingo recipe plus a magnet to hang the tea towel up by, as long as you have a metal surface around. The knife rack is good.
Father Christmas tea towel to carry the mince pie on a rollator!
There is always wind for a photo shoot and the ‘Buttery’ suffers!
Christmas presents!
What a great tea towel that was sponsored by Oxfordshire County Council
Shirley and her mother’s Amish tea towel, probably 50 years old. Read Shirley’s Tea Towel Story in Guest Tea Towels 2020
Read Paul’s Tea Towel Story in Guest Tea Towels 2020. Mind you, the tea towel could do with a bit of an iron!
Can’t resist a hook full of tea towels in the Emma Bridgewater Factory Shop
Great day out at Emma Bridgewater’s Factory Shop and look at all those tea towels!
A basket of tea towels waiting for pictures to be taken, destroyed by a cat who knocked it over!
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