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pensnestSeen this little set of questions going around, and they seem like fun, so.
1. What is the oldest thing you own?
This is quite the puzzler. I don't think I own anything really old… perhaps the oldest thing is the chest of drawers which I got when my Grandma died. It's not antique, but I think it is of the generation of furniture which was available just after WW2, when everything was rationed—utility furniture. However, I have not been able to find an online image of anything quite like it. It's quite tall, five drawers, stands on legs about 9" high and rises to somewhere between my navel and my chest. Pale wood colour, though I think it's veneered and made from something really cheap. I like it. It is simple in design, though a bit tatty, plus of course it reminds me of my Grandma.
I have quite a few things that are not much younger than I am, including a Chinese dinner service decorated with fish, but nothing that I'd really classify as 'old', not since we got rid of the wooden dining table that came from Beast's Belgian grandparents and may have been classifiable as antique. There was also a handsome hand-operated sewing machine, certainly pre-war, but I got rid of that when we moved house.
2. What is the oldest home you've lived in?
The current house, which is just over 100 years old. Or, in my third year at college I lived in Old Hall, which was built in 1875. My room had a rectangular window and an oval window.
3. What is the oldest book you've read?
Huh? The Bible? Which is probably the oldest physical book in the house, as it was given to me when I was christened. I dunno…. The oldest text I've read (and I'll exclude the KJV because I have not read it all) is probably the Chanson de Roland, of which I can recall only one phrase, paiens unt tort e Chrestiens unt dreit. A Useful Pronouncement, no doubt. Still, I think this question needs better definition!
4. What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
The elderly laptop is probably ten years old, and gets used for Zoom meetings because it is the only computer in the house with a camera.
Of other devices powered by electricity, because again, from the answers I have read, I suspect this question needs more definition, I nominate our microwave, which we bought in the year we were married, 1983. Still going sturdily.
5. What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've ever seen?
Stonehenge. When I was a child, we could walk among the stones and touch them, but that is no longer possible.
1. What is the oldest thing you own?
This is quite the puzzler. I don't think I own anything really old… perhaps the oldest thing is the chest of drawers which I got when my Grandma died. It's not antique, but I think it is of the generation of furniture which was available just after WW2, when everything was rationed—utility furniture. However, I have not been able to find an online image of anything quite like it. It's quite tall, five drawers, stands on legs about 9" high and rises to somewhere between my navel and my chest. Pale wood colour, though I think it's veneered and made from something really cheap. I like it. It is simple in design, though a bit tatty, plus of course it reminds me of my Grandma.
I have quite a few things that are not much younger than I am, including a Chinese dinner service decorated with fish, but nothing that I'd really classify as 'old', not since we got rid of the wooden dining table that came from Beast's Belgian grandparents and may have been classifiable as antique. There was also a handsome hand-operated sewing machine, certainly pre-war, but I got rid of that when we moved house.
2. What is the oldest home you've lived in?
The current house, which is just over 100 years old. Or, in my third year at college I lived in Old Hall, which was built in 1875. My room had a rectangular window and an oval window.
3. What is the oldest book you've read?
Huh? The Bible? Which is probably the oldest physical book in the house, as it was given to me when I was christened. I dunno…. The oldest text I've read (and I'll exclude the KJV because I have not read it all) is probably the Chanson de Roland, of which I can recall only one phrase, paiens unt tort e Chrestiens unt dreit. A Useful Pronouncement, no doubt. Still, I think this question needs better definition!
4. What is the oldest electronic device that you still use?
The elderly laptop is probably ten years old, and gets used for Zoom meetings because it is the only computer in the house with a camera.
Of other devices powered by electricity, because again, from the answers I have read, I suspect this question needs more definition, I nominate our microwave, which we bought in the year we were married, 1983. Still going sturdily.
5. What is the oldest work of art/architecture that you've ever seen?
Stonehenge. When I was a child, we could walk among the stones and touch them, but that is no longer possible.
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Date: 2020-10-13 09:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-10-14 03:28 pm (UTC)I like the goldenrod growing in my front garden because it reminds me of Grandma. And planted some Japanese anemones recently for the same reason.