My most treasured possessionWhat's your most treasured possession? What would you rescue from a fire (be it for sentimental or purely financial reasons)?
My Great-Uncle left me his visitors book which along with boring people like the Queen and Harold Wilson has Spike Milligan's signature in it. It's all loopy.
Either that or my Grandfather's swords.
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chthonic, Thu 8 May 2008, 12:38)
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As some have said...... in the end it's just stuff. Most of which is insured, so it can go up in flames and be replicated in full.
However, theres two things I'd want to get out with: a signed copy of Eleanor Coppola's 'Notes on the Making of Apocalypse Now' because she wrote a lovely message in it after I'd interviewed her. The other one is an original, framed Steve Bell 'If...' cartoon, of William Hague kicking his own head into a goal.
But really both of those are trumped by having to save 'Captain', my 5-year old daughter's favourite soft toy, that goes absolutely everywhere with her. Of course we could replace it, but this one has those battered-with-years-of-love idiosyncracies that can never be replicated. It's not just for my daughter either, she loves it so much that her anthropomorphication of the damned stuffed toy cat has seeped over to me and I think of it as a sentient thing. That may make me a sentimental silly arse, but I'd feel awful if she ever lost it for good.
Edit: Oh, yeah, and my longbow.
(, Fri 9 May 2008, 15:17, Reply)
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