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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/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"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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...</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">perhaps we'll go together...<br>dust to dust, flour to flour, <br>flowers falling to nourish<br>the seeds of flowers to come</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=460720" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I must remember to ask<br>my executors to write Kockum's<br>and confirm their not so often<br>substantiated claim</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a></strong></div>