A week ago I was at my first Liberal Drinks, during which I became used to being introduced as "our friend Debi, she is a small-l liberal", and at which I finally met
Charlotte Gore, who I am assured is not a Tory.
I don't know what happened to the conversation, but it became about mugs. Not just any mugs, but mugs that Belong to a person.
This is my mug. The mug is mine. I will use it preferentially for my morning coffee, afternoon tea, anytime I need a mug, actually. I'm so possessive over it that I don't like seeing anyone else drinking out of it, and I don't generally drink out of any other mugs (well, except for two specific ones).
I bought it a few years ago at Nauticalia, who sell a range of mugs featuring English Heritage blue plaques visible around the country. The blue plaque on this one specifically is actually on the Darwin Building at UCL, where I was a student and where I currently work at the Grant Museum. So not only does it represent evolutionary science and Darwin himself, but also my alma mater. Where I come from intellectually as well as biologically.
Plus it's bigger than normal cups and I can get extra coffee.
Do you have a mug, a mug that is Yours - at home?
Yes - one specific
18(45.0%)
Kind of? Let me explain...
5(12.5%)
Do you have a mug, a mug that is Yours - at your workplace?
This is as complicated as the home question. See you in the comments!
3(7.7%)
At work, I have a green one that I like. But again, I won't cry if someone else beats me to it in the moring. I'll just twitch a bit and reluctantly use one of the others.
Now then, shall I put the kettle on?
Edited at 2009-06-18 15:07 (UTC)
- 7 Penguin book mugs that I bought several years ago
- A white mug (with tea strainer!) that has a picture of Hokusai's Great Wave on it
- A black LSE 'currency' mug
- A white mug with my undergrad college's logo on it
There are a few others, including a fine bone china mug that has bookshelves on it, but these are the ones that I don't like other people to use. ^_^ And I'd buy more if I didn't think I owned too many already. I like mugs a lot.
My childhood home mug is the one described in the Poll, bought for me because I took all my own MY mugs to uni. It isn't what was chosen but fits well with Mum's habit of buying me something in red/purple and Dad having blue and mum having green (see tooth brushes, towels, breakfast plates). If that one isn't available I steal my Dad's penguin book P.G. Wodehouse mug.
I have lots of mugs here. And I (silently) resent it when my housemates use MY mugs and there isn't one left for me. Mine are the only ones that aren't cracked or chipped or really really small, so I can't really blame them. I don't really have a particular favourite any more but I'm pretty fond of the one that matches the one in the museum office.
I have a boring cream mug that says coffee and tea around the rim at the uni office and the one at the museum is cream with green and grey leaves on it. I bought it Ikea because I particularly like the widening upwards, truncated cone shape. I don't keep favourite mugs in the office because they always get broken :( I'm still in mourning for a previous favourite which is now missing it's handle.
Seeing that Darwin one, I might have to get it. It does look rather splendid.
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:GD_dhI6Kal0gfM:http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2771313123_a48ef6ecf5.jpg%3Fv%3D0
At my parents i have a mug, that looks like a mug and a t cup had a Goth love child.
I finally did blog about the mugs thing (http://charlottegore.com/2009/06/19/bonding-with-your-mug.html%22). Fingers crossed it breaks the writer's block.
Your mug is grand, I can see why you like it. :)
Also your icon is a work of terrifying genius.