Do you have anything odd in your sitting room?

A bowl of shells and pebbles on the bathroom shelf picked up by me and small granddaughter on various French beaches.

A door stop in the shape of a squirrel ( daughters think it is hilarious but me and the grandchildren like it! )

A white champagne bottle kept after the New Year

A dresser full of Edgewood glass animals and shapes ( not made anymore collected over many years)

A wooden tumbling balls toy kept on the floor bought in Prague on holiday. Every visiting child makes a beeline for it, the balls make a great noise running down the side shapes and hit a bell at the bottom

A large Concorde windscreen section - very heavy. It needs two strong men to move it.

I have a vitrine with all the odds and ends that people give and sadly I don't often remember or look at it- DH family medals,Japanese temple drums,a cigar cutter. I'm off to have a look now.

Two purses made of shells. Belonged to my grandmother. Absolutely unusable although both have pre-decimal coins in them. One was given to her by her brother later killed in WW1, the other by my grandfather. Both scruffy, totally out of place, but on display as I love them.

I've got one of those gd. It belonged to my great aunt Sally and was her pride and joy. She left it to mum and I have had it since mum went in a home. I love it.

An old oak corner table with barley sugar twist legs. It looks totally out of sync with everything else, but it belonged to my mother, and she was fond of it, so it is staying! In the dining room we have a cabinet full of oddities.

Gagagran
I want that

5 very small china owls, well 4 adults and a baby owl. Belonged to my mother. I hope they give me wisdom.

A big bowl of shells from all the beaches I've ever been on - always bring back a couple. Similarly sea glass.

I also have a piece of pit prop shaped into a modernistic head and shoulders of a woman which I was given in 1963 after admiring it in a friend's house. Her husband had made it for her and she hated it and I loved it - and still do. You can see lines of coal embedded in the grain.

Mr Absent.

A miniature bowler hat. My late Dad always wore a bowler and when he retired a patient gave him this odd little memento.

A couple of shelves of very old (they were very, very old when we acquired them about 40 years ago!) dental text books.

DH, of course ... and shelves of quite rare theology books.

We use large pebbles as door stops. DH often scores goals with them. ?

Tanith I thought I was the only one I have pebbles in all little odd corners I love them I found one that looks just like a pair of lips and another that resembles a boob but mostly are just prettily marked pebbles big and small I LOVE them I often get teased by my grandkids about my pebbles but they mean more to me than expensive knick knacks

Gosh we are an odd, but interesting lot of GNs.

An ostrich egg.

A man's Nigerian national dress outfit.

Some metal stamps for wax batik.

No......but I do have a full sized drum kit in my bedroom.

32 dolphins ...........


They are grouped together on a shelf unit H made and are not the only ones in the house.

Just me.

nelliemoser

A wooden Garuda statue and a giraffe. I love to bring something back from my holidays.

Oh yes, I have a collection of stones on display in a disused fireplace. I know where many of them came from: the first one in my collection, from seashore in Ireland, a smooth orange stone from a river in the USA, slate from Cumbria, pebbles from the local beach, sand-rock from Tunisia, etc.

A piece of Bog Yew ploughed up on the fens. About 5000 yrs old.

My OH