How to choose?

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Last weekend there was a VE day event in the village, and for that we needed plenty of glasses. There were not enough available in the village hall, and the cost of hiring them, although not that much per glass, added up to quite a lot when we needed a couple of hundred - and we were aiming to raise money for charity so didn’t want to waste it unnecessarily! So I decided to see what I could manage to scavenge and cobble together. I scoured the local charity shops, house clearance place and Freegle and managed to accumulate enough, and more cheaply than the hire cost. The drawback was it was me that paid for them – but I did get a free ticket to the event for helping out and I still have the glasses. I was going to give some to a friend. She often offers me a glass of wine when I go round but last time confessed that all her wine glasses had got broken (she has very careless children!) Of the 18 wine glasses I have available, no more than two match. She wouldn’t mind that, as they are quite likely to get broken in due course anyway! But how to decide which to give her? It wasn’t a simple case of picking a set of six. Should I give her the more elegant ones or the sturdier ones? Larger or smaller? I couldn’t decide. But in the end I decided on a rather unconventional criterion – I chose to keep the ones that made the nicest sound All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2025.