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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0258 While the enamel holds</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I've just made a passable loaf: <br>the mixing bowl could almost<br>be called a Thanksgiving Bowl - <br>maybe, could start a fashion: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">it's made, not of catering-trade steel<br>which spins nicely on the worktop<br>nor of plastic, but<br>of enamel, made about 1929 I guess, <br>by Kockums of Sweden, size 28 cms<br>it's clearly stamped -<br>Kockum's whose proud claim is that<br>'it lasts a lifetime' - if<br>you're fortunate enough to be able<br>to test it thus...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my mother used it to make cakes<br>- I can hear the scratch of sugar, butter, flour, right now; <br>sometimes the smell of lemon or vanilla too. And<br>for her, too, gratitude, I guess, <br>while she used it, hands and thoughts, <br>although she could not put it to<br>the Kockum's test...But the silvery marks<br>of the fork, or whisk, or careful knife that<br>left little for me to lick, <br>disappeared from its strong enamel</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and now I use it to make bread<br>wondering how many of<br>the current users could verify<br>to Kockum's management<br>their proud claim</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for it was only late in life that<br>my mother told me that this bowl<br>this small 28 cm bowl<br>was my first baby bath</div><div style="margin:10px 0">so as I use it with these mixed emotions<br>mixed together in this mixing bowl<br>receptacle of love on love<br>and thanksgiving<br>I note with some reflection<br>that recently, one slight chip<br>in its circular bowl has appeared<br>due perhaps to carelessness, not in<br>the preparing but the washing-up...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and think I'd rather think<br>(you see - the baby turned out intellectual) <br>my life were rounded by my failures in my care<br>than the life of an enamel bowl<br>however guaranteed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">perhaps we'll go together...<br>dust to dust, flour to flour, <br>flowers falling to nourish<br>the seeds of flowers to come</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I must remember to ask<br>my executors to write Kockum's<br>and confirm their not so often<br>substantiated claim</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460720" data-title="0258 While the enamel holds de Michael Shepherd" data-description="I've just made a passable loaf: the mixing bowl could almost be called a Thanksgiving Bowl - maybe, could start a fashion: it's made, not of catering-trade steel which spins nicely on the worktop nor of plastic, but of enamel, made about 1929 ..."></div> </div> </div>
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