What Do You Have at Home that Others Think is Abnormal? ?

I have a big dish of shells and small pebbles on my bathroom window sill. All picked up from my favourite French beach and brought home.

A squirrel doorstop with a huge tail

When DH was alive, we had a separate car for the dogs! It was a running joke which one had passed it’s driving test!

Books, lots and lots of them

And a 6 foot long stuffed alligator from Hamleys in the living room.

DH was directing a performance of Mozart's Magic Flute and needed a sea monster. We were at an antiques fair and he saw Lorenzo (his name) and immediately knew he was just what he was looking for. Once the show was over, we had this large stuffed alligator, so laid him out in front of the french windows while we thought about it. That was about 7 years ago.

Lorenzo stole the show and got a very good write up and the local paper, printed one photo of the show, centre stage is Lorenzo attacking the hero and knocking him over.

A 3 foot 6 inch carved wooden giraffe

I love him.

A vast library of books :

I'm a complete addict to research , reading and writing .

Esmay

A vast library of books :

I'm a complete addict to research , reading and writing .

Ooooh, heaven...

A garage that we can get our car in - everyone else here keeps junk in their garage and their car outside.

A big stone pig who lives outside the front door. At C*******s he has a big red tinsel bow round his neck (the only tinsel allowed on the premises). He’s called Piggy, very imaginatively. He’s very clean in his habits, not smelly.

We had fifty boxes of books when we moved here sixteen years ago. Even though I tell offspring to take whatever they want when they visit (excluding ones which they know we refer to all the time, like botanical books for me and art books for Himself), I suspect there would be quite a lot more boxes of books were we to move now.

And that was before the umpteen boxes of wine-making equipment, demijohns still brewing and bottle cases of made wine. We had a very resourceful removal team. They even transferred everything from the big removal truck onto smaller lorries to get to the house at all. There's no way a standard removal lorry could get up to our house (ambulances and fire-engines can't either). We did warn them and sent pictures before they took on the job.

Seems lots of books is entirely normal.

Tizliz, we have one of those as well ?

Shards of Roman pottery from France (taken with permission!), a giant pine cone from the Californian redwoods, lots of rubber snakes scattered round the garden to deter cats from pooping (they don’t) and a large Cuban flag. Must be others.

FannyCornforth

dragonfly46

I have a spider named Charlie!

Ah, that’s nice! Is he wild or tame?
Keep him away from those chestnuts!

Off topic, when I worked in Primary we had African snails and stick insects as class pets (not my idea, but my responsibility -this was something of a long running theme)
I used to have to take them on holiday with me.

We call ours Stan, he lives mostly in the bathroom.

A large box file with alphabetical dividers full of seed packets, mainly vegetable, currently on the kitchen table.

Witzend

Goodness, Yammy, do you know when she was born?

!832 I think, I have a copy of her birth registration. Her mother was a cousin of Wordsworth the poet. I obtained it from someone who was researching the family and I knew all the information but no photos so he sent me a copy as a thanks. The photo must have been taken when she was a very old lady.

4 computers 2 of which are identical
more than 2000 books
Boxes of stuff unopened for 20 years
A front door I never use

Oh I see that a large number of books is not so unusual. My exciuse is that I used to work as a librarian (no the books were not from my library).

M0nica

Seems lots of books is entirely normal.

It seems so.
I live in a tiny house, and at least 40% of it is books ? ?‍♀️

Yammy

Witzend

Goodness, Yammy, do you know when she was born?

!832 I think, I have a copy of her birth registration. Her mother was a cousin of Wordsworth the poet. I obtained it from someone who was researching the family and I knew all the information but no photos so he sent me a copy as a thanks. The photo must have been taken when she was a very old lady.

1819 I, ve just checked. If you google Elizabeth Anne Ritson the photo comes up on someone's Ancestry tree, not mine.

I have several photographs of my Great Grandparents, both born in 1845. All photographs taken around 1890.

My Great Grandfather was the Foreman/manager of a brick works and one of the photographs show him and his wife surrounded by their 13 children.

My Book of Shadows, with recipes, poems, drawings and spells written in it .

A long shelf full of tiny model buses.

The heating on too high.

My electric bike is kept in the dining room.

Having read about all these interesting and unusual objects in the home I am now concerned that I am not quirky enough, as I have nothing to admit to.