My Place and Yours: wherever I lay my hat, thats my home.

The ever hilarious Tania of Myrtle and Eunice is this weeks worthy theme queen for My Place and Yours. The theme is Wherever I lay my Hat thats My Home. ( yes, I have that song in my head now thankyou Tania and Paul Young)
Easy peasy.

You see when I was young and full of bravado and travelling across Europe by myself at age 19, I saw, in the window of a shop - the most beauiful thing I had ever seen... a wall hanging full of embroidery and little mirrors and all odd bits of cloth that I thought was the most exquisite thing ever. I also saw the price tag was  $1200. Totally out of my reach. I showed then older, wiser (!?!) boyfriend Mark, who, I was niavely impressed with ( god I was so young and so in awe of him- I actually slipped down a flight of stairs the first time I saw him so overwelmed by him was I- *cringe* he had been everywhere he was English and had travelled overland from Australia, Iraq, Afghanastan, had amazing stories to tell of crazy, wild and daring escapades etc etc )  who remarked in what was to be a life changing moment  " yeah you get them from India for about $20, but you can't go to India by yourself, you will get hassled by the locals - I met some girls (yeah  I bet you bloody did!) who were travelling alone in India and I thought they were very brave". 

Hmmm... a seed was planted  that grew and grew until very soon after I decided- before I returned home to Australia I would go to India BY MYSELF. I would be one of those "brave girls.' AND I would get myself one of those exquisite wall hangings. Simple.

So 2 years later, having been living in London playing silly buggars it was time to go home- via India. Alone.

I got my wall hanging.

I also got Typhoid fever.

I very nearly died- but thats another story.

Now I look at it and it reminds me how much I have changed and grown and matured. Where ever I have lived since - in the last 11years it has hung above my bed. I am not home or moved in properly until it is up. Chef knows - if the house catches on fire, grab Busy, the dog , the wall hanging and the yellow thing dad made and run for the hills.

Its tatty around the edges and it is peiced together is a very haphazard way but that is what makes it so charming.

Plus all these years on I still think its so beautiful.

( it cost me less then $20 to buy and other travellers kept telling me I paid to much which I found so annoying! HOW could that be too much??! So I gave an Indian family a huge amount of money! Great I reckon!!!)

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