A Rambling Train Of Thought That Touches On Big Issues

[poliphilo]

I don't get handbags.

I mean they're obviously very useful things but I don't get why they've become such fetish objects.

craftyailz was in Wilmslow yesterday. She came back with horror stories about how there were handbags in the shops  with price tags of £800- and counting.

I've seen these designer handbags. They look like handbags. I don't think I've ever seen a handbag I've considered beautiful. 

I mean, it's just a bag.

Ailz doesn't think anyone should pay that sort of money for such a frivolous object. Not in a world where people are struggling to feed their children. I agree. 

Wilmslow, of course, is in WAG country. Lots of premiership footballers have houses round there. Omid Djalili was saying on Have I Got News For You last night that it shouldn't be Wives And Girlfriends because you can't really be both at once.  It should be Wives Or Girlfriends.

It took a moment for us all to get the joke....

Omid Djalili is new to me, but it seems he has a show of his own in the pipeline. I'm looking forward to it.

He's a British Iranian. Big and bald and beautiful. Two of the most amazing people I ever knew were British Iranians. 

Michael Hashemian and Sherry....? No I forget the second name. Sherry was short for Sheherezade.

There are several Michael Hashemians out there. One of them is a dentist in Florida. I don't think that's my guy but who knows? He was 19 when I knew him. A Greek God-  with brains to match his beauty.

As for Sherry- well, I remember discussing Baudelaire with her. I was a terrible prig and saving myself for marriage and she was already spoken for, but it didn't stop me fancying her like crazy. 

I am dreading the moment when Bush attacks Iran. If Brown backs him up I shall feel as if my country is no longer my country .

Comments

[fickleasever.livejournal.com]

I'll leave the politics alone, but will comment on handbags...

Can't abide anything costing so much 'just for fashion' that makes no sense to me. But then I've never been a fashion victim... (a victim of other people thinking I'm unfashionable, yes, but that's different).

Handbags... My own was borrowed by my (now late) father and taken on holiday with him. It's black, a shoulder bag, with a lot of zipped compartments and is useful. I lent it to him back in... I dunno, the early eighties and it's still going strong. I've mended it several times. I prefer to mend something old and useful that still has use left in it and than buy something new.

And... I have two handbags that I don't use, that I wouldn't want to use. They belonged to my mother and I am emotionally attached to them.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Everything would be simplified if women's clothing came with pockets.

Though I believe they're trying to sell us "man bags" these days.

[fickleasever.livejournal.com]

Women's clothing does come with pockets, but they don't make them the right way!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Not deep enough?

[fickleasever.livejournal.com]

Sometimes not deep enough, but mostly they are cut in a diagonal slant, so things fall out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Very annoying.

Pretty pointless too.