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deponti

Swings

Mar 04, 2009 15:48

The sight of a beautiful little swing in the home of one of our friends set me thinking nostalgically ( Read more... )

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suzan_s March 4 2009, 12:51:10 UTC

This is a neat post. We have the same thing basically....front porch swings....unfortunately I don't have a front porch or a swing....but they are cool.

deponti March 4 2009, 13:40:27 UTC

Thanks Suz! I do love the front porch swings that I have seen in your country :)

asakiyume March 4 2009, 13:23:32 UTC

Wow--hung from the ceiling like that? How wonderful! As suzan_s says, we have porch swings, but they don't swing as far as something like what you've photographed. Once in my childhood we visited a house where someone had a real swing, hung from the ceiling. I loved it!

The mother of my friend grayheyes lives in a marvelous, idiosyncratic house with a tower--and in their garden is a swing whose seat is made from half a hollowed-out log. Kids love it!

deponti March 4 2009, 13:42:20 UTC

Well, I guess they are all "real" swings no matter where they are hanging from!

I would *love* to see a pic of grayheyes's home...that swings sounds SO lovely!

The only swing I have is actually very nice...I have a macrame swing, when my *expensive* S3 comes back, will post a picture of it. Children who visit my home DO love to swing on it!

cyberscorpion March 4 2009, 20:45:52 UTC

"Thottil" is the simplest form of "Oonjal". And since we start from a Thottil, we actually develop a liking to "Oonjal". You will not know how many times I had fallen down from an Oonjal. Although we didn't have a formal swing, we had a one seater swing at home. Oonjals were more seen in Bram's home.

orey naal unai naan is a good song bytheway. Illayaraja is great !

deponti March 5 2009, 04:23:25 UTC

Oh, yes, I did forget about the cradle/thottil....and also the "thooLi"....and the rubber tyres that so many rural children tie to tree branches and have fun... childhood is, indeed, always associated with swings.

I feel that in the time of present Rahmania, people are forgetting other talented music directors...

thaths March 5 2009, 00:37:04 UTC

I love what your friends have done with (what looks like) their backyard.

deponti March 5 2009, 04:25:01 UTC

Their home is really done in excellent taste....it has Kerala elements in it, but still understated and beautiful.

What a coincidence mmk March 5 2009, 01:56:29 UTC

See:

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/005663.html

On another indian on a swing ;)

Re: What a coincidence deponti March 5 2009, 04:24:09 UTC

JUST what I wanted...to know what that person has in her home!! :)