here and there

On the ferry over to Manly I see planes slicing up into the sky over the Harbour Bridge. One after another they cut diagonal towards the heavens like they’re on a conveyer belt, evenly spaced. I remember in London, Tom telling me that wherever you look in the London sky, you will see a plane. No matter where we looked, trying to catch a corner of empty sky, there was a crawling ant plane somewhere in our peripheral vision. Not here. A dusty quarter moon caught my eye in the dry blueness, but the rest of the sky, I am happy to notice, is empty. 

glorious acquisitions

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For my birthday a couple of weeks ago one of my best friends gave me a fantastic present: a plain umbrella with a sunny blue sky on the underside of it. It's one of the things I've always wanted, but couldn't remember having told anyone about it!

There are a few items like this that I hope to acquire over my lifetime. Not bucket-list experiences: physical things. I wouldn't go and buy them on Ebay for myself, I just feel that at some point they will cross my path in a meaningful way, and I will end up with them.

my glorious, coveted acquisitions

One of those 'best friend' heart necklaces that snap in half
A secret diary with a lock
A dreamcatcher
A locket that really opens
An umbrella with blue sky underneath
A ship in a bottle
An old-style world globe with sea monsters etc painted in the oceans
A hammock

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Found a forum online discussing this exact subject.

What's the silliest object you've always wanted to own?

I don't mean the object itself should be silly. I'm talking about things that have little or no use in everyday life or hobbies, which you want to own anyway because of some sort of infantile infatuation or such.

For me, it's gold coins. I've been playing games since I was 5 years old and ever since seeing Mario pluck them out of thin air, digging up countless brimming treasure chests and diving into dragons' hoards full of 'em, I've wanted to own a genuine cache of gold coins, preferably chest-style. Heck, with today's gold prices it wouldn't even be half as useless as it first seems. So, what oddities and kitsch would you spend your hard-earned dough on "just because"?

Time to quiz the amigos.

Blondie: "one of those leather chairs from the 70s that has wooden arm rests and legs"

Frenchy: "a Japanese relaxing sandpit thing- you know with accessories and a rake and you can rake the sand and move the little objects"

Footsy: "a Paddington Bear coat"

Peruano: "a secret space under a loose floorboard, to hide things in"

What's yours?