Over on the Novel Racers' Blog , Debs has posted the mug she usually takes to the shed with her. It had me thinking...do I choose the same mugs for writing? Well yes, it would appear I do. The first one was done at the pottery cafe in Fulham before we left and inspired by India Knight and Nervis Thomas' book The Idiot Proff Diet - I use this one for green tea, the next in line is dd's - I steal this one for redbush tea, and the final one is my coffee mug. Do I get out of sorts if I don't have the correct mug???? Not really but slightly. Will have to see if my output is adversely affected by mug choice! Is your choice of mug among your writing rituals?
I have a range of mugs that I can use when I am writing. If I am given the wrong mug, then it simply doesn't feel 'right'. And I can't drink from those mugs and relax at night ...
ReplyDeleteI didn't realise that I had these 'quirks' until just now! But I think it's better to have these 'issues' than to only be able to write with a glass of wine or 57 bars of chocolate :)
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I'm totally and utterly obsessed with mugs. There can be 15 clean ones in the cupboard but if one of the right ones isn't there, I have to do the washing up! I've always been obsessive about mugs...
ReplyDeleteI can be quite stroppy if presented with tea in a mug I do not fancy! Sad but true!
ReplyDeleteps thank you for writing on my myspace wall , Im already a Novel Racer though ( see I make SOOOO Little impact on the group you had forgoten I was there!)
Your mugs are so much more appealing than the one I use though.
ReplyDeleteIt's comforting to know that I'm not the only one.
Caroline - don'ttempt me with glass of wine and 57 chocolate bar!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I was obcessive until I began writing seriously :-)
Un Peu - on Facebook there is a Novel racers group but I didn't see your name there...I have seen you on the blog :-)
Debs - you are definately not ALONE!!!
Me, I make myself a drink then I get writing and forget all about it until I reach for it, only to find that its gone cold.
ReplyDeleteBest thing for me is to have a cold drink beside me.
Best wishes,
Annie
For me, any old mug will do. As long I turn it around nine times clockwise with two fingers on the handle, then nine times counterclockwise with both palms.
ReplyDeleteWhat, is that weird?
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So long as my mug contains caffeine then I'm good to go.
ReplyDeleteAnnie - ice tea then?
ReplyDeleteSteve - shall I send the men in white coats yet?
Nell - invervenious drip would probably be best :-)
I'm not obsessive about mugs for writing, except for the special one I keep for a hot chocolate treat to pick me up when the writing gets really difficult. But I am obsessive about mugs in other contexts. I have a green one for peppermint tea and a yellow one for camomile tea. They don't taste right from other colours (except white, but that's too boring). And talking of obsessive... I got here by blackboxing!
ReplyDeleteMe too. I have a daytime mug, an evening mint-green tea mug, an evening normal-tea mug, a mauve(ish) Lesley Ann Ivory mug for fennel tea, a greenish Lesley Ann Ivory mug for ginger tea. Then there's my Christmas mug, my hot-chocolate mug (doesn't see very much use these days as I am being Very Good), mugs that remind me of friends, mugs that make me feel cosy...
ReplyDeleteEr, I'd better stop now.
I've got three specials: one (the most-used)for coffee, one for vanilla latte and one for tea.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't only writers - husband has one for coffee and one for tea as well.
All five of them are different. Whatever happened to the days of matching cups and saucers! Actually, I do still have some. They come out about once a year when my snobby s-i-l visits.
Hope you're nicely settled in now, Liz, and writing up a storm.
Came here through blackboxing AGAIN. No, I haven't been doing it all day. But I've done it quite a bit recently, and you're the only person whose blog I read anyway, who I've ever been directed to. And twice in one day. Weird!
ReplyDeleteI've got a lovely Jane Austen mug with a quote on it: ' Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me I own and I laugh at them whenever I can.'
ReplyDeletePlus one with great writers' signatures on it. But neither of them have rubbed off on me yet!
I died a little inside when I smashed my favourite writing mug years ago... have never found another worthy substitute and still miss it; how sad is that? Currently I use a thermos mug for everything and still wait patiently for the next Great Mug to come along... Thanks for commenting on my blog, by the way!
ReplyDeleteWhat awesomely cute mugs! I love mugs, but I'm not picky. I just wish my drink of choice would stay hot longer...
ReplyDeleteI've got an Elvis mug and a Yummy Mummy mug and those are mine. The other mugs in the house belong to DH. And I do get out of sorts when one of my mugs isn't clean.
ReplyDeleteI love yours!
I don't make a fetish out of it... but there are some mugs I won't drink from!! I agree that you have to keep the redbush tea in its own mug although when I worked in an office folks wanted me to take it to another room!
ReplyDeleteYour mugs are so much more appealing than the one I use though.
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