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

Mega-heavy wooden/bone-inlaid Elephant from India.

Whenever I leave the back door open in the summer, I drag out DD2s life size cheetah from childhood to sit at the open door to ward off a neighbouring bullying ginger tom who pesters the life out of our cat. It works. ?

Essential for me but many may think it ridiculous. My stash of craft materials that takes in, art, patchwork, other fabric crafts, knitting and crochet, paper crafts , stamping, scrapbooking to name a few and of course cookery and baking books. I have a whole room for them.

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.

My electric bike is kept in the dining room.

The heating on too high.

A long shelf full of tiny model buses.

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

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.

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.

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 ? ?‍♀️

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Tizliz, we have one of those as well ?

Seems lots of books is entirely normal.

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.

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.

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

Esmay

A vast library of books :

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

Ooooh, heaven...

A vast library of books :

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

A 3 foot 6 inch carved wooden giraffe

I love him.