On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 08:58:44 +0100, Peter Twydell
wrote:

[...]
I don't know about the value of granite as a worktop, but I do know someone
who had it as the top of a table on the terrace. Eventually, it ended up
covered with a thick felt pad and a table cloth, to prevent the frequent
loss of crockery and glassware.

Colin Bignell


Glassware breakage is unpredictable.

Not in this household it isn't. Glassware here often collides with other
objects and the results are usually pretty much the same.

One of our crystal glasses fell
from coffee table height onto a parquet floor and just bounced. An
identical glass, or it might have been the same one, fell a short time
later from the same surface onto a thick Berber rug, smashing into
several pieces.

--
Tony Halmarack