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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Not as 'ard as I like to think it would seemThinking about this question this week I decided that most of my stuff could burn, assuming that the other half, kid and cat were safe.
However, I would like to rescue a few things from my childhood on reflection:
* A care-bear my dad bought me when I was about 3/4. As mentioned in a previous QOTW my dad was a bit of a wanker, and this is the only present he ever actually bought for me as a child (we saw him rarely and birthdays were usually celebrated with a phonecall advising that there was a tenner in my bank account for when I was older or some such shite).
* Pictures of my nanna. My nanna was quite simply ace. I'll tell you more about her in another more relevant QOTW, but I will want these photo's when I'm older and the memories are a bit less fresh.
* My nanna's christmas tree decorations. My nanna was crazy about Christmas, worse than any kid I've ever known, she had this extreme level of excitement from October every year, and had a large number of outdoor light up figures and such. She also had the same little wooden tree decorations on the tree every year for as long as I can remember. When she died we all got given one of the outdoor figures and some of the tree decorations. Putting the tree up now reminds me of that insane excitement.
The last item is not in my house sadly but one day I'll get it back. When I was in the last year of school I was living with my nanna for various reasons too lengthy to go into here, but she made me try at school (I hadn't been doing so for some time LOL). My final piece of art coursework consisted of a 13 week long project. I had just discovered the music of Bob Marley and the smoking of weed, so decided I would do a large charcoal drawing of the great Bob Marley for my final piece. I worked really hard, and I dragged my final grade up from a D to a B with it. It went on display in the hall at the end of the year, and then my mam asked for it for her room. It's still there now. It's this that means the most to me, she's still got in on show, some 12 years later. I'd hate to lose it, and ask her to give it back every now and again (she always refuses though).
(, Sun 11 May 2008, 22:04, Reply)
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