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Did you choose the dinner plates you use........... and what are they like?
I am using ones inherited from my mother-in-law, blue & white flower pattern. I don't like them much but I hate just chucking them out 
I'm hopeless with crockery and forever breaking things, so whatever I've inherited over the years is gone now, just bought some brilliant dinner plates from Ikea for 19 pence each, bowls to match same price and cups 9 pence each, so if I break those it doesn't really matter at that price.
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