"At the moment they are all in a cupboard with hundreds of plastic carrier bags (which arrive in the house at a rate of knots despite my never using one when I go shopping, armed with my ancient canvas long-handled bag or a rucksack)."
"A long-handled wooden spoon lay in the empty bowl."
"The woolly-heads made a run for me, each with a long-handled, fantail tomahawk with which to hack off my head."