Not the more usual garden gnomes, miniature windmills etc., but..
In Oxford there is terraced house, with a large plastic shark poking out of the roof tiles. I recently spotted briefly from the top deck of a bus, a semi-detached house with what looked like flock of sheep in the front garden. Taking a longer look this morning, it was a group of around 7 sheep plus a sheep dog - all full size and plastic.
I've seen that one before, and then was an imperial walker from star wars made of wood in a frint garden.
My late next-door neighbour had three full-size plastic pigs in his garden, one sow and two piglets!
As I have a plastic lawn, there is a slight temptation for a plastic sheep to graze it ... but I've resisted so far.
Go for it, put a smile on a strangers face!
Nah, *electric* sheep. Solar powered of course.
And a sleeping, dreaming android of course.
Thats twice you have looked, is this some new fetish activity called Bo Peeping.
GH
A guy on a council estate a few miles from here had a dipute with the council, so he decided to have a few garden ornaments ... IIRC a cooker screwed to the wall about 8 feet up, a car planted nose down as far as the windscreen and a minuature of stonehenge made of old engines.
SteveW
Stonehengine?
Yes it is an odd thing to do. I am not sure who started this practice. I wonder if its a bit like all the clutter one sees now around Christmas time with illuminated Santas and all the rest of it?
I think the shark one would have been an issue for the planning department, as a guy who put a couple of Santa wellies sticking out of his chimney for Christmas had the council around about it saying it was not allowed in a conservation area. I guess the litter spread all over the footways and dead trees in the area are nothing to do with the council then? Brian
Yes there is an art installation somewhere in the states that is a load of cars buried in various positions in the ground, apparently. Brian
Marland has brought this to us :
I caught a very fleeting glimpse the first time, a fraction of a second, just a vague impression and I wasn't sure my eyes hadn't deceived me. Where they were, with a field of sheep just at the other side of the road, they could well have been live sheep.
Brian Gaff presented the following explanation :
From what I read about the shark, it certainly was an issue, but it has been there now for decades and it has become a bit of a tourist attraction. I first spotted it driving past, when working down there at John Radcliffe.
The litter is caused by the wankers that throw it there, not by the council.
However Sheffield council is still doing its best to cut down healthy trees at great cost
"Carhenge", in Nebraska.
for reference.
By coincidence I walked past a shop this morning in a Devon town that had some of these ornamental sheep in a window display ,outside there was a real dog going absolutely potty barking at them. I have also remembered that nearer to where I normally live there is a small independent group called IN-EXCESS which sells a variety of hardware, wood tools and garden items many of them end of line or surplus from other retailers . They also seem to get some weird garden ornaments in at times, A Bulldog made in bright red GRP that would bad taste enough but made worse because it was about the size of a real pony. I wonder who buys these things. They also have dinosaurs for sale, some of them are displayed here where they have set them up to raise funds for the nearby hospital.
GH
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