I did some nesting this weekend. Now in the living room I’ve got -
[ul]An oil pastel sketch of a dreary windmill, done by a distant relative in a symphony of browns. It’s pretty ugly but I like it. It hung on my grandparents’ wall since the Cretaceous period, I think it’s dated 1918 or something ridiculous.
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[ul]A little sketch of Boston market hall dated seventy-something, which I found in a charity shop in Chorley. I wish I knew the story of that getting from Massachusetts to an Oxfam in West Lancashire. I like it a lot.[/ul]
[ul]My grandad’s certificate of incorporation for his demolition company, dated 1963. In the 60s certificates of incorporation were a lot nicer.[/ul]
[ul]This amazing photograph of a pilgrimage to Lourdes; hundreds of pilgrims and nurses and people on stretchers and whatnot, all lined up outside the cathedral. I don’t know when it’s from exactly, but it’s black and white and everyone’s in those round, black-framed glasses from before they invented spectacle fashions. Again, this is from a charity shop, which is just absurd - it probably hung on someone’s wall for decades and then they died and someone chucked it out. It’s amazing; every time I look at it I see something new.[/ul]
And in the kitchen I’ve got -
[ul]Two Zaka masks from our honeymoon in St Lucia.[/ul]
[ul]The tasting menu from Viajante, where we went for our anniversary this year (Has stuff like “Tomato, water, strawberry” and “Thai explosion II”).[/ul]
[ul]The comparatively sensible tasting menu from Northcote Manor, where we went when Matt proposed.[/ul]
[ul]This Lightning Bolt poster. [/ul]
[ul]A Deerhoof poster I can’t find online, from a gig in 2007. Matt surprised me with tickets, which was nice.[/ul]
[ul]A page from a Dutch 1983 calendar featuring a 1920s tennis advert. It’s in Dutch because my mum got it from Pijnacker when she visited my aunt, who was living there at the time. History![/ul]
[ul]Matt’s electronic barometer device. [/ul]
There’s nothing upstairs at the moment because all the walls there are being painted / stripped / knocked down / etc.
I like that everything on my wall means something to me. How about you?