Sinister: armchair teary - "i have a jaw, i have a broken jaw" peter dog lyon (1963)

[terry underwear]

hello everyone,

today i dropped a $2 coin down the back of my armchair.  so i tried to get it out.  what followed was funny, then sad.  the following is a list of what i found in the back of my armchair (which was my aunts, then my parents, and has been mine for about 5 years - it is from the 50's i think) :
a peg (no surprises there), a cool blue toy spanner, a fake charlie chaplinesque moustache, a pencil, a jigsaw piece (someone, somewhere, is cursing at this very moment), a purple texta, a piece of fence from a toy farm set, and a blue and white straw.  
All of those things made me think of being a kid - and being excited about building little farms, fixing broken toys with toy tools, then breaking the toy again so as I could fix it again.  And the straw made me think of fishing with my dad and brother.  you see, the best bait to use to catch herring is blue and white straws.  or so my dad told me.  we never did use to catch many fish...  

Excited by my find, I thought i would look in the sides of the chair.  i was not disappointed.  finds included:
a Monkee's Trading card from 1966!, an entry form to win $500 - unfortunately the competition ended on the 26th of August, 1967, 2 trading cards (depicting spectacular car crashes!) from Weet-Bix packets, a small piece of newspaper with nothing of note on it, a comb, a photo of my uncle and aunt and cousins, a piece of paper with "i have a jaw, i have a broken jaw, peter dog lyon, 28/08/63" written on it (rather strange..), and last, but certainly not least, a letter from my nana to my older brother and I asking how school was going, how our dog (patsy) and cat (ginger) were, and telling me that my stuffed toy (puppy) was okay and enjoying his holiday in perth.  you see i took puppy everywhere, and i accidentally left him at my nana and pop's once.  But my nana found him, and said that he was having a nice holiday, and that he missed me.  That was very sweet of her.  She died about 8 years ago.  I cried then, and I cried again today.  i wish i could thank her.

i didn't found my $2 coin.  but i found lots of memories.  i put everything back down the armchair, except for the photo and the letter.  maybe in years to come someone else will drop a coin down there and find so much more than they had hoped for.  maybe i should drop something belle and sebastianny down there. then if they happen to be on sinister they will have some content.

be nice,
terry

PSa - happy birthdays to kin and jim!

PSb - the recipe tree is kind of underway (send me recipes!).  Caitlin Pigtails is very kindly and fantastically archiving the recipes on her website if anyone is interested.  Here is a link:
http://www.joannou.net/topofthestairs/sinifood/
If you want to get involved just email me.



 


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