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If, whilst on holiday............. ........

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j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 14:52:47

you bought an old statue of a lady clutching her robe, unsuccessfully, round her bosom, what would you actually do with it when you got home? confused I paid eighteen quid for it. (I did knock seller down from twenty, so that's alright. hmm)

And, a tabletop chiminea? At 32 cms high it's too big to put on the table, and you couldn't have a little fire in it in the dining room - could you?

And then there's the garden gnome holding a notice in front of his cross looking self, saying,"GO AWAY". Why did I buy that? confused

What happens to brains on holiday?

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:06:56

Um jeni ....fertility not not fortune shock

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:09:48

Both actually!

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:13:03

grin well I wouldn't want him in my garden ...what a wonderful bird perch!!

OK ...just realised the double meaning there grin ...I meant the feathered variety

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:13:40

grin - wonderful Jacey!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:13:49

grin

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 20:14:15

Are you sure about this jens?!

it gets worse

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:15:12

Also god of viticulture. Ie vines, ergo winegrin
A god after me own heart!wine

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 20:15:14

You can't have one of those by your pond.

Unless.............. perhaps attach a fishing line?

Nah!

j04 Wed 04-Jul-12 20:15:53

You don't 'alf start some stuff on here jens. hmm

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:18:07

That's the picture. It used to be kept covered and shown only to men. The gentler sex might have been shocked!
The statue I want is a copy of the one in the cubicle, I already have a copy of the fresco outside the door. DD bought it for me!

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:22:24

Which door jeni? The front one???grin

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:22:39

I'm trying to get you lot into the present century! So far we ve only got as far as about 400AD!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:24:07

It was outside the door of the Vetii. I'd love to have it outside mine, but I think it might upset the neighbours!

Jacey Wed 04-Jul-12 20:25:57

An the postman!! grin

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:27:04

Not to mention the Postman...!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:30:53

My postman wouldn't notice. I don't think he's even literate.

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:35:48

He could hardly fail to notice a giant priapus looming at him though - he wouldn't need to be literate!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:37:46

As he can't even find my house, but takes the post next door?

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:39:31

Any way that fresco is only about 18x12 inch !
It is beautifully painted though!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:44:22

They now think that the house of the Vetii may have been a high class brothel (I based my fictional one when on a cruise on this house)
The lower class one has much more interesting fresco, depicting a variety of sexual variations.
Including a bipriate Priapus.

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 20:51:15

Oh, now that's going too far, jeni!
grin Or should I say 'those are'?

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 20:57:13

Sorry, but bipriate Priapus is well known every where. Except on GN!
Jing can find the fresci I'm sure!

Anagram Wed 04-Jul-12 21:01:33

Not if she Googles it, she can't - no such thing, according to them!

jeni Wed 04-Jul-12 21:03:01

If you google Priapus Pompeii images. There are copies of the fresco I have in mind. Sooty, don't know how to link to it.

(I wonder what GNHQ mane of this thread?grin

johanna Wed 04-Jul-12 21:04:41

jeni ,
shame your postman is not gay. grin grin