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

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.

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!

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

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

A photograph of my great great, great, great, grandmother. She is an old lady on it.

Two mega-hefty wooden hippos, weighing in at 40 kg each, that live under the Hippo Tree (huge Swiss Cheese plant) in the bay window. They’re called Hip and Hop (found by dh while on a business trip to Zimbabwe).

Plus of course Spike O’Saurus, aka the prehistoric tortoise in the garden.

Two framed pictures of Herdwick sheep from the Lake district. One is a crossstitch that I worked. I love those beautiful creatures.

Mostly relating to DH's obsessions
Lots of Lego
Hundreds (possibly thousands!) of books
Rocks (mostly from his archeology digs)

Two large framed pictures of The Beatles (one of which I am in the picture). Four thimbles with The Beatles on. A set of coasters which are Beatles album covers. I am a Beatle nut.

A trayful of seashells - DH would pick them up from every beach we visited

Some of these things sound quite normal!

Must have a clear out.

Me!

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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.

I have a spider named Charlie!

Lots of shiny new conkers scattered around the house, which I picked up in the park yesterday, in the hope that they really do keep spiders away.

Our golf clothes in their own wardrobe.

A third bedroom full of garden tools. We downsized and now don't have a shed.

Oh, if we're going imaginary - we have an imaginary maid who pops in and does strange things that aren't usually useful. We don't see her and certainly never pay her.

At the last count, 52 jigsaw puzzles. I keep them in the loft, and every time my husband goes up there he swears they are breeding.

A plastic wrestler about the size of a 7 year old.

The heat on.

We, well, he’s DH’s really, have an imaginary weasel who lives in the shed.
He’s called Eric, and he’s been there for getting on 20 years.
DH and Eric don’t get on.

I have about ( maybe more ) paintings that I have painted at classes , all framed , in the bottom of various cupboards and a few on the walls behind my chair , in a dark hall
My family can’t think why I keep doing them when I won’t sell them !
I don’t think they are good enough , but love doing them !
I can’t bear to bin them either !

Way way off.

Now that would be telling!!!