We had to clear my maternal grandparents house out nearly two years ago, just before I moved out myself. I inherited all sorts of awesome stuff, like a typewriter, a full china dinner service (they had three, but I was only allowed to keep one, because my aunt wanted the one that was a wedding gift to them, and my mum thought that two china dinner services was excessive for a 19 year-old), more cutlery than I knew what to do with, including cake forks and a spoon for leaf tea (but my mum 'stole' the pickle fork), a dining table and chairs, an oak desk (which mum has borrowed back, but will be mine one day) and a Welsh dresser.
But what they didn't have was a full set of silverwear. I can barely even match knives to forks.
Mum has already decided that Rick will get my granny's pocket watch, and I, being the eldest child of the eldest child, will get a writing box that belonged to my great, great, great grandfather.
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Date: 2010-11-19 04:53 am (UTC)But what they didn't have was a full set of silverwear. I can barely even match knives to forks.
Mum has already decided that Rick will get my granny's pocket watch, and I, being the eldest child of the eldest child, will get a writing box that belonged to my great, great, great grandfather.