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Post  Ev Sun 2 Jan - 9:15

If only this grand old Crown Lynn 707 big mixing bowl could talk!
Created out of a lump of clay in maybe the 1940's or 1950's, you would have been used to make many wonderful things for special occasions ..... Christmas cakes.... Wedding cakes .... Birthday cakes .... Christening cakes .....and then there would be the Bread and lots of it .... Hot Cross buns ... Scones.... huge Pavlova .... countless cakes and biscuts to keep the cake tins filled for the family. You would have been treated with respect and lovingly taken care of, being an essential part of the kitchen.

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But then one day something dreadful must have happened to you!!! A large ugly crack appears down one side .... did somebody drop you perhaps..... or knock you against something very hard? Now that would have been a dilemma for the woman of the house .... who may have even shed a few tears for you.

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You still managed to keep it together ..... Bravo! But now your life was changed forever as that horrid crack could harbour countless nasties, so your happy life in the kitchen was over. Luckily things didn't get thrown away in those days, but were used in other ways and someone .... you will know who ... decided that you could be used as a pot plant pot!! I'm happy and sad at the same time for you mixing bowl. As somebody then went on to drill holes in your base ..... oh shudder me!! You held it together .... Bravo!

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You lead a charmed life now in your 60's or 70's as you have nothing to do other than to be a reminder of days long gone and now here you are getting your photo taken and being written about. Keep on keeping it together lovely old mixing bowl Smile
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Post  Thelma Sun 2 Jan - 20:36

That is a lovely story Ev Sad sniff sniff! My large mixing bowl in the garden could probably have a similar story to tell. I don't think mine is CL at all though, looks a bit like the large temuka two tone bowls.
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Post  TonyK Mon 3 Jan - 0:37

I'll second that emotion Ev. A beautifully crafted story - which nicely links into the refrence to kintsugi in that Education Resource Card from the WCAG - and this kind of thing:
http://parenthetically.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html

or this: http://andrewbaseman.com/blog/?m=201011
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