Wool?

According to the internet, our upcoming seventh wedding anniversary is wool or copper (traditional) or the very uninspiring desk sets (modern). As the anniversary is only two days away, and given that I can't get to the shops, that means I have about enough time to knit Brendon something useful like - a peggy square. Or maybe a novelty nipple cover. Just what he always wanted!

Anyway, I mentioned to him that next year, the modern gifts seemed to offer much more excitement, being linens and lace. He replied that he would buy me a table cloth. Upon my indicating that it was the LACE option that I was favouring, he said that he would get me a doily instead. This caused an uproar of laughter from Isabelle and Aidan, for no apparent reason at all. I think they thought that doily was a made-up word! I told them that doilies were real, and that we had even bought one each for their grandmothers when we were in Belgium - to no avail at all.

I just looked it up in my Concise Oxford dictionary: doily, doyley (hmm, never seen that second spelling before - interesting) - small ornamental mat of paper, linen, etc, on plate for cakes etc. [orig. name of a fabric, f. surname]. Actually maybe a doily would be a fine anniversary gift - especially if it came with cake...