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I thought I'd seen all there was to see in my daughter's yard when I posted the first lot of photos. How wrong I was. I'd missed the woodpile that dwindles as it keeps us warm; the canoe that doubles as a table for the alpacas; the cartoon on the wall of the loo; a bench occupied by a blue bucket; the griffin with creepy eyes; the very pink pig whose lurid pink will never fade to subtle beauty; the decaying pushbike layered with dust, rust and cobwebs; the dog lounge with its prayer flags; the slab of faceted quartz; the magnificent crooked-nailed gate patterned green, orange, white and yellow with lichen or is it moss? or fungi?
And for you, Jo, something battered but almost qualifying as pretty: my Stanthorpe yard shoes, a Vinnie's purchase that has served both my daughter and me, as well as the original owner.
Oh, bless you, sweetheart! I was just bumbling my way down the page and rather liking the wood and nails (and even the creepy griffin) when I came upon your pretty shoes. Thank you! š
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My granddaughter thinks the shoes are disgusting! No taste, this younger generation!
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They’ll learn š
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I recognise that pig š
And no prizes for guessing what I’m going to choose: that crooked-nailed gate with LICHENS!! Your daughter lives in a pollution free place š
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Thank you for lichen ID – J was a bit dubious. The pig’s hard to forget – you must have wondered at my aesthetic sense when I picked it while you were visiting. Only excuse is the back story.
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I’m only surprised that it is still so pink! I would imagine it to fade outdoors.
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The bench and the blue bucket for me…..
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I’ve already scheduled a swag of posts for Jude’s occupied benches in October, so this one had to find a place here.
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Well, I need to find some benches for Jude’s challenge!
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Feel free to take this one and turn it into something wonderful, rather than merely documentary.
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My favourites in the collection: the quartz with its range of shining, faceted colours and the shoes, which don’t look very battered but do look pretty and certainly comfortable. Birkenstocks? If so a good buy indeed.
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Trust you. Yes. Birkenstocks. Comfort, or even brand-name, doesn’t matter much for short yard walks, but I like the clog-like sense of being protected from various droppings as I peg out the washing, and I love being able to slip them on easily.
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What an eclectic mix, I love your daughter’s home with all its little things that even you didn’t see at first, and especially the dogs lounge.
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Well, I did actually see the dog lounge. Even sat in it. Just didn’t photograph it!
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Your daughter’s collection of objects are quite enchanting.
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Collection sounds a bit purposeful. Maybe accumulation!
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One of my daughter’s has a house full of strange objects too. Collection is being polite. š
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Your daughter has a fascinating collection of random things. What happy shoes for the garden.
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Some of them hers and her yardmate’s: some of them, like the bike, left behind by the previous owner.
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That bike looks like an artistic installation… š
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