I stopped to take a closer look.
I don't know. In any case, I like it. It's unique and appears well made.
8 Jan 2016
A Gargantuan Garden Ornament
I had cycled along this street many times before, but the other day I suddenly noticed for the first time, the biggest garden ornament I'd ever seen.
It's a wonder I'd never noticed it before! It's so big it's about to eat the car!
I stopped to take a closer look.
Perhaps the people who live here were from Africa originally.
I don't know. In any case, I like it. It's unique and appears well made.
My jaw dropped that big when I first saw the hippo!
I stopped to take a closer look.
I don't know. In any case, I like it. It's unique and appears well made.
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My goodness!!! Why would anyone want that hippo? For the kids to ride and play on it?
ReplyDeleteYes, this is very unusual. I don't know if they have children as every time I pass by there's no one around. Perth's suburbs are very quiet that way.
DeleteIt seems to be an effective way of shooing away unsolicited visitors like salesmen and any undesirable spirits of all kinds (natural or unnatural).
DeleteAlternatively, it might attract a sweaty cyclist with a camera.
DeleteMaybe someone has a subtle (and humorous) way of using the hippo's "Big Yawn" to convey the message "This place is so boring."
DeleteHey! Perth is not boring, it's peaceful!
DeleteOops, so sorry, touched on a peaceful ozzie nerve. What I meant is "I am so bored." :-)
DeleteNo need to apologise, my friend. If I could remember the emoticon for tongue-in-cheek, I would have added it there. Perth is often called "Dullsville" by local residents (younger ones) and some visitors alike. As for me, it's grown too big for my liking. Give me the days when I first arrived and the population was just 750,000 anytime. (Now it's just over 2 million).
DeleteWait till the "Dullsvillagers" go to Canberra! Allow me to tell a joke (mathematical one on Pythagoras' theorem - look it up if you have forgotten) associated with the hippo.
ReplyDeleteAn American Indian chief had 3 wives. To the first squaw, he gave an ox hide and to the second a deer hide. But to the third, he gave a hippopotamus hide. Why did the chief give a hippopotamus hide to the third squaw?
Answer: Because the squaw on the hippopotamus hide is equal to the sum of the squaws on the other two hides.
This "dullsvilliager" actually found Canberra very interesting, especially the War Memorial. Canberra also has extensive cycle paths, which I did not have a chance to ride on.
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