What is interesting actually, given that I live on my own and I don't need a dishwasher, is that I just wash the few dishes I use in a sink. So, whilst carrying two bowls back (in one hand and being a bit precarious - something else in the other hand) I dropped one bowl, and being china or porcelain it smashed. Just ten seconds or so earlier I had a thought as to having had this bowl for possibly two decades or so, and I haven't broken any bowls in that time. A few wine glasses and tumblers but no plates and such. How odd that I had this thought though.