In the heading of this blog, I promised you ceramic anteaters. Well, here they are at last:

I have been working hard in the pottery making and firing my little birds and beasties. Here are two kilnsworth on the bench, waiting to be packed up and delivered. The first consignment went to the Walford Mill Craft Centre on Monday ready for a Christmas exhibition. Others will be on their way soon to galleries in Honiton, Otterton, Alresford and Lyme Regis.

Any bloggers in Wimborne Minster this Saturday (3rd Nov) will find me in attendance at the Mill between 14:00-16:00.

These little items, much hated by pedants (or should that be pedant's?), are commonly thought to be a symptom of declining educational standards. Readers may therefore be interested to know that on the Antiques Roadshow of Sept 16th, one viewer brought in a catalogue of "Historical Curiosity's" from Alnwick Castle. It was dated 1770 and written by a well-bred - and presumably fairly well-educated - young woman.

So, Potatoe's, Cabbage's and Plum's have a respectable historical precedent.

[Edited] - a good one I saw today using plurals in a creative way: "Partie's catered for"

Greengrocer's apostrophe: the lowdown from Wikipedia