Keep me warm!

I've never seen anything like this before...it surely was a bag-looking thingy. Made from beautiful fabric with bunches of pink roses on a pale yellow background. Covered with clear plastic secured with tiny red buttons. Handles, lots of padding and two zippers opening the sides. Suddenly the penny dropped. It's a thermo-bag! An old way of keeping things hot or cold for picnics. A different kind of a tea-cosy. A hunt for a suitable coffee or tea pot began.

Finally a perfect pot was found but I was not sure if something was missing from it. Usually these kind of glass tops are used in percolators but there wasn't anything inside this gorgeous little red pot. Oh well I can boil water in it.

When I returned to this pair of objects a few years later I found that mice have had a fabulous picnic party too. One handle was missing, there was a big hole in the plastic and a few nibbles here and there.

Still, even that couldn't shade the charm of this perfect pair from the golden era of Suomi Filmi black and white movies.



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There is also a contemporary version of this type of tea-cosy by deruig.co.uk that Kate Carter (Life&Style editor Guardian UK) has referred to as a Buy of the day.