When I arrived at The Mantle Mansion this morning I was distracted by something I had passed at the entrance. I wandered into the kitchen, poured myself a cup of coffee and greeted Their ‘Ships, who were dining on kedgeree and peasant porridge. “What is that out the front?” I questioned. They giggled in a very un-Lord and Lady manner. I was perturbed, what was so amusing about that innocent query? “The new plants by the door? What are they and where have they come from?” The dejected couple led me back to whence I had come to show me what I should have seen on my arrival. My defence for missing their pre-halloween prank was that I was distracted by some plants. This isn’t the first time it has happened, but it is the first time a skull was involved.
Distracted
Off The Edge Gardening 
Now, as an ex-radiographer and current plantaholic I cannot decide what would have grabbed my attention first!
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It would be an interesting experiment!
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Many years ago, while still in school, I went out to get the newspaper from the driveway, and came back in with an odd feeling that something was not right. I stepped back outside to realize that there was a sea lion in the front lawn. He had wallowed about to make a crater big enough to park a Volkswagen in, but was still when I went by him.
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You definitely win!
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Win? I had a huge hole in the lawn to repair! Besides, a lack of attentiveness is probably nothing to win at.
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They should think themselves lucky. If they had left a tray with free seeds in it, you wouldn’t have got as far as walking past your breakfasting clients to the coffee pot! But be thankful. Few clients would create a statue in their gardens with a likeness of their gardener. It’s a compliment.
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You say the nicest things John, hang on a minute, let me think about that …….
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I am very relieved I am unlikely to be bothered by a sea lion in rural Devon! The moles manage to do do more than enough.
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That statue looks nothing like you, I should know, I have a lot of experience of skull shapes.
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Oh yes, a lot more flesh on me!
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I did not mean that!! Us radiographers see straight through to bone structure!
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And the heart x
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