Photo a Day Challenge - Fork

I have chosen two stories of my life for this Challenge.  I lived on a sheep station in Australia for most of my childhood where we were free to roam on several hundreds of acres as long as we were back home before nightfall.  During my adventures I  decided to go through someones rubbish bin (don't ask me why because I just can't remember).  I was around 10 years old and in that rubbish bin I found a teapot.  A very unusual teapot and I asked the person who lived in this house if I could have it.  Which of course I could and I have treasured this pot for nearly 55 years!  Never used it, but often take it out of the cupboard admire it. 

I believed this pot to be around the 1930s, having seen something in a very old Reader's Digest some 30 odd years ago.  One that was similar, but much prettier than mine.

You pop your tea (no tea bags in those days) in the top shelf which has lots of holes in the base, put the lid on and tilt the teapot on its side to draw.

In 1968 there was a local competition in Woolworths for the "most unusual teapot". I have now been the proud ownership of this teapot for 11 years and so I decided to enter it into the competition.  So I took it along to the store the day before the competiton.  The only problem for me was that I could not be there for the Judging as I would be 35,000 ft up in the air on my way to the UK.  So I had to ask my Mum to pick up the teapot after the event.

Well.....I won that competition - no big prizes - all a bit of fun.  I won a carving set.  The fork was nothing like a carving fork that I had ever seen.

I rarely use it these days, but when I did it was brilliant - it held that joint of meat in one place whilst you carved it. 

Since my trip was planned to be for just three months, my Mum held onto my teapot and carving set, but the as the months turned into years, she had to ship all my things over including my prescious teapot and my great carving fork and knife......