Cash in the Attic has ruined me.

[charliesmum]

I was at book club today, and we'd read this book called "Namesake" that has to do with a family originally from India, and the woman who hosted was actually from India, so she wore a sari, and served Indian food and gave us all bindis to wear.

Anyway, we were discussing the difference between arranged marriages and marriages for love, since the mother and father were from an arranged marriage and seemed to really like each other, and someone pointed out that in the book it states the husband would never have thought to bring flowers to his wife. Well Rebecca said something along the lines of how flowers aren't everything, and left and came back with a wooden box in which were 12 2 inch discs made of ivory, and on the front were beautifully rendered pictures from the Kama Sutra. She told us that it had been a gift to her mother, and was over a hundred years old.

Thanks to my Cash in the Attic addiction, however, my first thought was, "I wonder how much that would go for at auction." and I wished Jonty or Paul were there to tell me.

Sad, no?

And a quick Charlie story, I just came home, and still had the bindi on, and I showed it to Charlie, and told him what it was. "It's from India," I said.

"Oh," he says in surprise. "Did you go to India?"

"No, just book club."

"That's good. India's probably far away."

He was half asleep at the time, but it was still pretty funny.

Comments

[femaelstrom27.livejournal.com]

Charlie is such a sweetheart. Also, I love The Namesake.

[cactus-wren.livejournal.com]

Charlie is *too* funny.

Is Cash in the Attic one of those antique shows where they tell you what stuff you thought was junk is worth?

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

The Cash in the Attic that I watch is on BBC America - they come to a person's home, and that person is trying to raise money for something, and the appraiser finds stuff in the house, tells you what it would probably get at auction, and the second half of the show is the auction, so you actually get to see if the stuff sells. It's really fun.

[jessii-6.livejournal.com]

And there's also Antiques Roadshow ...
sleepie!Charlie is funny

[anngwish42.livejournal.com]

From the time I was 4 until I was about 9 or so, I firmly believed that I had been to Russia. My mom and I got on a plane, and were on it for what I considered to be a very long time, and then we got off the plane and there was a guy speaking Russian, and we went to a house where people spoke Russian for a couple of days.

Turns out? We were in Oberlin, OH, at my mother's alma mater (and my brother's current college) hanging out with a Russian immigrant friend of hers from her college days.

[thenorthernline.livejournal.com]

You get Cash In The Attic over there? Me and my girlfriend have a theory that Alistair and Jonty are having an illicit relationship. Watch for the chemistry.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

BBC America shows Cash in the Attic. Alistair looks so much like my brother-in-law it's scary. We've jokingly wondered what relative of my husband's was naughty, maybe during WWII or something.

And there is total chemistry between Jonty and Alistair.

[leakyandsnort.livejournal.com]

My Aunt's (late) partner apparently speaks with a lot of hand motioning. We visited out there (CA) when I was 4 or 5, and until I was like 15, I thought that she was deaf and had been speaking ASL.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Charlie's adorable.

I sometimes wonder if, taking abusive relationships out of the equation and allowing for the cultural differences and so on, there's not much difference between Love Marriages and Arranged Marriages after you get, oh, say, three or four years in. That omg-so-in-love feeling doesn't last forever, and you've got to develop the knack of living together in harmony before it fades, or your relationship is screwed. If you develop that knack while you're not "in love", well, mightn't you end up in the same place anyway?

I think it's complicated, but I do think a certain kind of love can grow. I think our society makes us think love needs to be fireworks, and I think it needs to be a lot more like a garden. I mean, fireworks are nice, but they don't go on forever.

[slammerkinbabe.livejournal.com]

Man, I had almost the exact same experience. When I was about four or five, I was convinced that I'd been to China because I'd crossed a local bay on a boat. I mean, I knew China was across the ocean somewhere, and I knew that the bay was the ocean, and we'd crossed from one shore to the other. And then there was an Asian family across on the other shore. So I'd been to China! I knew it was a communist country, so I looked around alertly for signs of Teh Communist Ebil (this was in the '80s and my mom was big on communism being Ebil), but I couldn't find any. I was disappointed.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I mean, fireworks are nice, but they don't go on forever.

That is beautifully put.