@vfrmedia ...how do you dry dishes?

@vfrmedia I mean, we let ours air dry most of the time but sometimes only a tea towel will do.

Also good for drying the table after wiping it, and drying things that really need drying immediately, like proper sharp knives.

@vfrmedia I guess you could use kitchen paper for all those things but I never really buy it as it seems so wasteful when I could just... use a tea towel.

@artsyhonker I do have them was given enough of them by my mum when I moved out from the family home to Ipswich to last me a lifetime 😉

BTW a printed teatowel of Münster Cathedral is selling for as much as €23 (€3 goes to a fund for the cathedral..)

@vfrmedia @artsyhonker fair enough! :-)

@artsyhonker also I fully suspect the prettier / more expensive ones never get used as teatowels at all but kept in drawers or only showed at posh tea parties (and this would be the same across Northern Europe).

What do seem universally popular are serviettes - in religious families they get put on side tables with Bible quotes on cards amongst other things with spiritual significance (my Lutheran grandmother in Malaysia did this, its also done by some Catholics in the Netherlands) >>

@vfrmedia Yeah, I'm thinking sung grace on a napkin might be just the ticket.

@artsyhonker according to a guest on Radio Maria NL she devoted a whole table to this, which her daughters and grandchildren contributed items too - I guess if they had any cats in the house these are well behaved and taught not to upset whatever was placed on there 😸