A friend dropped by with her daughter for an impromptu lunch the other day and the best I could rustle up from my nearly bare cupboards was boiled eggs and soldiers.  It  brought back happy memories of saturday tv dinners in front of the A Team and was so easy to knock up in minutes. I predict a microtrend happening in this house.

Owing to my incomplete crockery collection, my friend had to fashion some cups out of the egg box while I dealt with the soldiers. There was sellotape involved and everything. I don’t think she’ll mind me describing the result as, erm, crafty. Conclusion: I am now on a quest for some egg cups. Here are a few of my favourites…

Clockwise from top left: porcelain egg cups by Linda Bloomfield, stackable ceramic Egg Saucer by Yoyo Ceramics, bone china Butterflies Egg Stand by Polly George, earthenware clay My Egg And Soldiers by Takae Mizutani, bone china Egg Cube by Kathleen Hills, plastic Egg Soldier Cup by Reiko Kaneko.