Compostable

Just a few days ago (was it?) Freespiral and I were comparing notes on cutlery lost and found in the compost and today in the vegetable patch what should I spot but a teaspoon lying on the no-dig bed where last autumn I'd spread compost that must have been made two or three years earlier.

The spoon was in a sorry state of tarnish  but after a bath in Silver Dip and a hearty rub with Silvo it came good and fit to re-join its brethren. 
 (Inset: the errant spoon in front compared to a non-composted one.)

It was one of the 'Nevada silver' electroplated teaspoons I bought in a charity shop a few years ago.

“ The substitution of electro-plate for real silver is now so common in households where the latter would be regarded as a superfluous luxury, that the sternest advocate of true principles in art-manufacture would scarcely require an apology for its use.” (Charles Eastlake, Hints on Household Taste, 1878) 

(I'm not apologizing. It's certainly hard-wearing.)