Doll house inspirations
Action and reaction: one thinks of consequences as the immediate aftermath of an event not as a far-off unforseen, intangible.
But if you are a sci-fi fan and have read Asimov's "The end of eternity", then you will know that the 'eternals' can cause a flat tyre that will make you late for a scientific seminar and hence the imapact that some great physicist would have had on you, didn't happen and now you will never be the scientist who caused the atom bomb to be built and lots of lives would have been saved.
Whew! Don't I sound like a radio jockey trying to fit in as many words as possible before the next commercial break?
Well anyway, the point I was trying to make was that who would have imagined that cheap airfares would have made me interested in doll houses.
So the man of the house and chief funder of holidays was invited by a friend to visit Denmark with a promise of taking us on a trip to Berlin with a visit to the Stasi headquarters and a ride in a tank to boot. He dismissed it, but I just had to ride the tank in my combat fatigues (which I didn't yet own) and my boots (which I did). My enthusiasm ignited the travel bug which had been slumbering in him for a while.
A cursory check online showed that if we booked six months ahead, we could get round trip tickets to Rome from Bangalore at 35000 Rs about 480 euros. You might ask why Rome when we wanted to go to Denmark. Could it be that we didn't know our geography? Well we do, its just that for some reason tickets to Copenhagen were about 10-15 k more. So we decided to see Rome which had been on our wish list for the longest of time.
At some point, we came across doll houses. I can't remember if it was at the toy museum though. Christoph, our super enthusiastic host who was our guide, photographer, adventure trail enthusiast and motivator in chief (making the inertia laden, man of the house, bike 15 kms and me, jump, well okay wade, into the super cold North Sea) told us that he had built a doll house for his girls.
The bicycle that I rode on fanø island
May be the germ for this interest was sowed in the miniature rooms in the Art Institute that we visited the previous year at Chicago. My childhood friend insisted that I had to, just had to, visit this part of the museum.
My history with her spans several years. I have memories of cold water being splashed by her on my face to shake me out of a well deserved sleep post some serious studying for some random test.
As you might imagine, that left some serious scarring on my poor beaten and battered soul. I wouldn't dream of repudiating any suggestion that she might make. In the Windy city, water poured on anyone will only cause pneumonia. Not being sure how much of the hospitalization costs in the U.S, would be covered by my travel insurance, I didn't hesitate and did her bidding.
I do meander don't I.
But coming back to Christoph's announcement, I was intrigued and what is more, determined to build a doll house for my three year old.
Hunger calls, keep a look out for my next post and I will show you the doll house that I have partially built. It was conceived as a three month project. Luckily there is no one holding a gun to my temple as I just might overshoot it (pun intended).
But hey, its authentic, every single piece of furniture is self-built, not bought from a shop. So watch out, and maybe in a month or two or maybe two hours from now, my next post will show you the way.
But if you are a sci-fi fan and have read Asimov's "The end of eternity", then you will know that the 'eternals' can cause a flat tyre that will make you late for a scientific seminar and hence the imapact that some great physicist would have had on you, didn't happen and now you will never be the scientist who caused the atom bomb to be built and lots of lives would have been saved.
Whew! Don't I sound like a radio jockey trying to fit in as many words as possible before the next commercial break?
Well anyway, the point I was trying to make was that who would have imagined that cheap airfares would have made me interested in doll houses.
So the man of the house and chief funder of holidays was invited by a friend to visit Denmark with a promise of taking us on a trip to Berlin with a visit to the Stasi headquarters and a ride in a tank to boot. He dismissed it, but I just had to ride the tank in my combat fatigues (which I didn't yet own) and my boots (which I did). My enthusiasm ignited the travel bug which had been slumbering in him for a while.
A cursory check online showed that if we booked six months ahead, we could get round trip tickets to Rome from Bangalore at 35000 Rs about 480 euros. You might ask why Rome when we wanted to go to Denmark. Could it be that we didn't know our geography? Well we do, its just that for some reason tickets to Copenhagen were about 10-15 k more. So we decided to see Rome which had been on our wish list for the longest of time.
To cut a long travel story (that I will write at some point if I ever remember the names of all the churches I visited) short, I will fast forward to Aarhus the second largest city in Denmark, where we visited the open air museum, Den Gamle by. This tries to recreate a market town from the period of Hans Christian Anderson.
This has some really interesting houses including a tailor's shop and the mayor's house.At some point, we came across doll houses. I can't remember if it was at the toy museum though. Christoph, our super enthusiastic host who was our guide, photographer, adventure trail enthusiast and motivator in chief (making the inertia laden, man of the house, bike 15 kms and me, jump, well okay wade, into the super cold North Sea) told us that he had built a doll house for his girls.
May be the germ for this interest was sowed in the miniature rooms in the Art Institute that we visited the previous year at Chicago. My childhood friend insisted that I had to, just had to, visit this part of the museum.
My history with her spans several years. I have memories of cold water being splashed by her on my face to shake me out of a well deserved sleep post some serious studying for some random test.
As you might imagine, that left some serious scarring on my poor beaten and battered soul. I wouldn't dream of repudiating any suggestion that she might make. In the Windy city, water poured on anyone will only cause pneumonia. Not being sure how much of the hospitalization costs in the U.S, would be covered by my travel insurance, I didn't hesitate and did her bidding.
I do meander don't I.
But coming back to Christoph's announcement, I was intrigued and what is more, determined to build a doll house for my three year old.
Hunger calls, keep a look out for my next post and I will show you the doll house that I have partially built. It was conceived as a three month project. Luckily there is no one holding a gun to my temple as I just might overshoot it (pun intended).
But hey, its authentic, every single piece of furniture is self-built, not bought from a shop. So watch out, and maybe in a month or two or maybe two hours from now, my next post will show you the way.
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