oh dear we are going to run out of room here I think. hmm others might be buying furniture and art for inside their houses and I'm busy getting the outside organised.
Called into our local garden centre yesterday to pick up my regular supply of fresh pecans and saw some lovely garden "ornaments" I just had to have.
I've got a thing about gargoyles. Not the concrete ones that you see at markets though. I like ones with detail. For years I'd been saying I wanted to build a house with gargoyles on the roof. Unfortunately, again it will not be happening as our new build will have a colorbond roof so no gargoyles there. Our little local garden centre had some fibreglass ones for sale yesterday. I asked if they were going to be getting them in on a regular basis and was told no. It seems they had to get them imported from China and they won't be getting any more. ...... Dh was dragged down to the garden centre so he could "look" at the large gargoyle. It's not a scary one. The lady in the garden centre commented that they reminded her of the wooden carved ones from that episode of Grand Designs where the couple built a gothic style house and had gargoyles on their stairs case banisters. DH liked one of the smaller ones. There were 2 small ones and one large. So after a bit of deliberation we asked if they'd do us a deal if we bought all 3.
SOLD!
atm they are in DH's car boot in boxes. I'd love to have them out on our patio but am scared they'd go missing as we have an open yard area here without proper fencing and with a park behind the house. I guess they'll end up stored in the spare room until we have a house and garden to move move them into.
Hmm count rate atm is 1 large buddha, a small pond fountain spout dragon, a wombat, a terracotta warrior, an echidna, and now 3 gargoyles.
Could be worse. I guess I could have a thing about garden gnomes. or have Buddha's and assorted like statues replaced gnomes in peoples minds as the big no no?