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Mannequins in the garden
Many years ago I had a realistic looking mannequin amongst my gooseberry bushes at top garden. I even added my shaved off,beard to his face and an old pair of glasses......such was my attention to him!!!!!! A topic of fun or irritation but couldnt ignore him. Over time "he" died. Ahhhhhhhh! Would love to get another. Asked at local shops, stores etc for them without success. Tried to topiaryise Taxus fastigiata imto a human figure but not,too good. Would love to get hold of a mannequin. Maybe make one myself. Is this gnome-like or "class"? Or am I regressing to my,childhood....childlLIKE ..days??? Where can I get another?
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I have one rescued from a skip top half only she now sits just inside the bedroom window wearing nothing but a hat trying to crash tractors.
I always feel that my garden lacks a feature and some personality, this sounds such a crazy idea but I would love one.
Good job it was OH driving the other day, we went out to a GC and OH went the 'pretty' way. We passed a house with one of the old red BT phone boxes in it's front garden, the occupant on the 'phone was a young lady wearing a dress that started late & finished early, fishnets & suspenders, and knee-high boots. She had long blonde hair and was wearing a hat pushed down low over her eyes. Yes, the young lady was of the plastic variety.
I let out such a squeal of laughter that the biggest little one wanted to know what was wrong, and I got told off for nearly deafening OH.
It was very funny, though.
Blackest, you may get more success with Tractor Crashing if your young lady wears slightly more than a hat - it's not what men can see, its what they think they can see.
Went to an auction once at a reclamation yard, the chap who owned it had died, and his widow wanted all the stuff gone ASAP, so she could sell the land and spend her retirement somewhere warm (don't blame her, the chap make arkwright look like a big spender).
The phone boxes went for £500 and £800
However, we did get some nice cast iron stair spindles, some glass out of a railway signal (OH promised at the time to make me a signal in the garden - still hasn't materialised), and a really nice carver chair. This has now become the 'naughty chair', whenever one of them throws a wobbler, that's where they go, it's big enough and robust enough for any amount of kicking and throwing of self backwards.
There was a male one in a front garden which we drive past on our way out of town, it was naked & had a different pose each time we passed it. Haven't seen it for ages, I had a great urge to give it a wooly hat & scarf in the cold weather!
Thinking about it maybe it wasn't a mannequin but some sort of artist's model as all the joints; fingers, wrists neck etc moved a lot, which a mannequin wouldn't need. Gave us a laugh anyway; not the sort of thing you'd normally expect to find in Inverness!
Where can one get something for the garden that is not a humanoid naked effigy? A sculpure to add interest, know what I mean?