Do you have anything odd in your sitting room?

A box containing bottle tops, feathers and ping pong balls for the cats to play with. They ignore proper pet toys.

Also a pile of adult Dot-to-Dot books, my latest craze.

A plastic squash bottle, filled with diluted blue paint, and decorated round the sides with fish and shell stickers.
(And the lid tightly screwed on.)
DGD aged 8's "aquarium" she made a couple of weeks ago.

little man made out of 3 stones(think snowman)painted with a suit and tie
made for dad in 1963 as a present came back to me when he passed.
a handmade wooden box filled with feathers of all knds

A little wooden cabinet, one of the ones people used to collect thimbles in.
It contains lots of little minature items collected and gifted over the last 22 years, it got a lovely shiny conker added to it on Saturday.
Everything very precious.

This is Gaston. He looks after my whisky each evening.

Shysal is an Adult Dot to Dot book one that has shapely ladies and hunky men ?

Marmight I like your style. Can I join you for a drink tomorrow for my 71st Bday ? However I would prefer a rum and Coke with ice and lemon, or a Mojito, or possibly a glass of bubbly and maybe a few nibbles.

On the book case, a cream coloured clay model of a fish with green speckles, just under a foot long. His body opens out slightly at the bottom so that he's self standing.
Made by my granddaughter.

A giant bong, because I love the colours of the wood and glass, a large clear vase filled with water and various shells I've collected from trips to the seaside and a yellow plastic duck that dances when the sunshine falls on it.

We have a glass cabinet which was originally filled (and still has) tasteful nick-nacks. But stuff has been added over the years until now it's more than full. A piece of gum resin from a tree in Australia. A small lump of red striped stone from the Grand Canyon, some interesting seed pods, one or two shells from distant beaches. A short piece of rope DH made at London Dockyard. Oh, and a glass eye ball inside one of the tasteful cup, saucer and plate sets. (Can't remember where that came from.) And so on. Are these odd?

Where does the glass eyeball come from?

Oops! Just read again; you don't know where the eye came from?

NanKate, my dot-to-dot books don't have 'adult' content, but when searching Amazon for more, I found that they are available. I resisted!

Hope you have a happy birthday today, Kate, Does this cake have enough candles?

Yes ?? NanaKate - I know how many candles as I remember it was A Big One last year ???

PS I have a samovar in my living room.

Shysal I shall have a portion of that delicious virtual cake with my morning coffee once I have blown out the 71 candles and been resuscitated after such exertions !

Anya I'm pleased your memory is still razor sharp ?

No idea where the glass eye came from MissAdventure. I think it was probably in a box of miscellaneous items my dad bought at an auction. He would do that just to get one thing and then resell the rest, usually at a profit. The problem was he would often be left with odd bits which he couldn't bare to throw away.

NanKate Happy Birthday! I'll get Gaston to bring you a selection from the cellar

Ah, thanks, dumpling! It makes sense now. I was wondering who on earth had lost it!

Hic, stumble, giggle. I have you to blame for this Marmight ?

If I feel rotten in the morning when I am due to go up to London to continue celebrating with an old friend, there will be words 'and I am unanimous in that' as Mrs Slocombe of Are You being Served used to say.

Shall we have a party at Christmas Marmight and we can get ShySal to bake us a cake, preferably soaked in rum?

Coolgran65, my grandad used to be a boot/shoe maker and at one time there were three of his lasts around, but they disappeared after my mum died. Wish I had managed to keep one somehow.

A hoof. My little dog is chewing it on the sofa, where it is not allowed. It's her reward for the vet saying today that her teeth and heart are perfect. For a ten year old Cavalier that's rare.

oh i have a samavor too

We had a snake in a large cage for a while. My son was between flats.!

And a bearded dragon for a year in the dining room. It's owners were between houses. The bearded dragon was actually very cute!

Before I had the kitchen extended in my old house my freezer sat in the living room. It was a chest freezer so couldn't sit under the fridge in the kitchen