Remember how I blogged about the trauma of when mum and I visited the local garden centre recently?
I was trying to explain, very badly, about the menacing stone owls they have in great profusion there.
I don’t think I did a very good job of it.
When I say that there were hundreds of them, I am not exaggerating.
I now have photographic evidence.
I know it doesn’t look impressive, but honestly, there were hundreds of clumps of these things, EVERYWHERE.
It was like that episode of Dr. Who, the one with the stone angels where everyone shouts: ‘Don’t blink!’ and the angels get closer and closer with their evil, stony fangs.
Only in this case it would be their evil, stony beaks.
It’s my mum’s birthday next weekend. Maybe I should buy her a clump of stone owls, and then position them outside the living room window, so they can stare in through the foliage.
‘DON’T HOOT!’
This is the first post I have ever read of yours and I am now completely hooked. xxx
I dare you
Natasha
Welcome, and thank you.x
Lizzie
It may have to be done, if I can lift the damn things.
They look really creepy – all those eyes, staring at you! I don’t think I would want to go back somewhere like that!
Alienne
I’m going to buy them blindfolds.
I rather like them. Mum was obsessed with owls when I was growing up and we used to have a mantelpiece full of assorted ceramic ones. Clumps of stone ones hold no fear for me!
Alienne
They are! They are creepy!
Alex
You must go into the shop and buy them. I will poke the money through the window at you on the end of a stick.
OMG!
But Tilly will love them!
She can love them from afar.
As Keith says, Tilly will love them so Be Very Afraid if you do buy them for your Mum – Tilly may owlnap them and they will appear is menacing clumps around your house too! Possibly wearing grubby hoodies, clutching their ASBOs, a can of lager and a furtive fag . . .
I can just see them with a smouldering Gauloise hanging out of one side of their beak.
A couple of days after you blogged about this the first time I went to said garden centre and thought the exact same “don’t blink” weeping angels scenario. They are really freaky!!! x
Aren’t they just!
my first thoght was — tilly heaven! now, if you could only give them bonnets with bees on them, she’d be ecstatic. i must admit en masse like that they are a bit … daunting.
Yes. One is cute. Hundreds are evil.
Did you (or Sharon or anyone else) ever read a children’s book called ‘Marianne Dreams’ by Catherine Storr about a girl who is ill and dreams about a boy in a house surrounded by watchful stones with eyes on them? They reminded me of that a bit!
No, I haven’t read it Noreen but now I think I really should
I’ve got the book somewhere. must dig it out.
my dad supplies these owls to the garden centres we currently have 31,000 in the garden!! i actually like them and think they’re cute and friendly but i guess if i’m not here to post tomorrow you’ll know why…
Ava
holy crap. I’d have to have the blinds down at the windows all the time. Hope you’re still alive…
Fucking hell.
HFF
Quite.