Collections

I have a penchant for collecting stuff. Though it rarely lasts for more than a few days. Starting from the very basic stamp collections, I have dabbled in with pen collections, new 10 ruppee notes (and donations are still welcome!) and some wierd cones I found at the terai mountains on one of my vacations long long ago.

Now these cones were very interesting. There were used in small mountain factories to weave cotton thread and wind them up on the cones. Once used there were just thrown away on the hill sides. My 9 year old mind found them nothing less than a precious treasure. So much to my mom's indignation there were carried very carefully piled up in the backseat more than a thousand kilometers back home !! The rest of the summer vacation was spend in finding a use for the pile up of cones in our backyard. Me and my brother debated (and fought) over a panorama of appropriate uses. While my brother wanted to construct a sort of mini aircraft out of them I wanted to use them to decorate our cats home. Well she just Had given kittens and they were all looking sooo cutee! Sadly neither was the aircraft constructed. We'd leave that to the NASA guys.. wont we? And neither did the kittens get their new home. However, some cones were badly destroyed in the process of trying to make either....

We grew up. Sometime in between then and now Mom though it safe enough to sneek them away to our maid. Just yesterday she found one lone survivor tucked away in my old cupboard. She has promised to keep this one safe untill we can go upto the mountains again for more.