Day 216 – The Queen Mum Spoon

My mother-in-law is staying with me, which is awesome, because I’m quite tired of writing about spoons and she said she’d help.

Today’s spoon celebrates the Queen Mum’s 100th birthday, which was on August 4, 2000. I handed the spoon to Margie and told her to feel it, but don’t look at what it was.

She described the spoon thusly: “It’s got a lump in the bowl. How the heck am I supposed to eat with this?”

Day 182 – The Canada Day Spoon

Happy Birthday, Canada! 

Canada was born on this day in 1867, when the British North America Act of 1867 (or BNA Act) united the Provinces of Canada (now Ontario and Quebec) with New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into a single federated nation. 
My maternal grandfather was born in Phillipsville, Ontario and my paternal great-great-grandparents were from Prince Edward Island. I think that means I can be “grandfathered” in as a citizen, right? 

Anyway, this sterling sliver spoon, made by Oneida, marks the last major birthday our neighbors to the north celebrated—just 50 years ago in 1967. 

Fun Fact: July 1 in Canada was known as “Dominion Day” until 1982, when it was renamed “Canada Day” in honor of the patriation of their Constitution (at which time, the BNA Act was renamed as “Constitution Act, 1967.” 

Day 172 – The Teen Prince William Spoon

I think I speak for everyone when I say that I’m thankful that I did not have to suffer through having a photo of me during my awkward teenage years immortalized on a horrible, gold tone, electroplated souvenir spoon like poor Prince William, here. 

Through some fancy Google image searching, I managed to find the original photo they used at the top. It was taken at an August 16, 1997 photocall with his father, Prince Charles, and brother, Prince Harry, at the family’s residence in Balmoral, Scotland. William was 15 years old.
The spoon appears to commemorate the day of his birth, June 21, 1982. Happy Birthday, Wills!