A Man and a Child
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (382067)
Rockingham, Australia
November 9, 2015 5:24pm CST
Villages in the UK and Ireland are very close together. Sometimes it seems you no sooner leave one than you're entering the next. One of these villages is Dunshaughlin and it is close to where my son lives.
We built Damian and his wife two planter boxes and needed some timber. As we had few tools we asked the shop assistant if it was possible to cut the planks to the lengths we needed. We thought they'd have an electric saw of some sort but no, despite our protests, he got to and sawed them all by hand. He was from Eastern Europe and had been in Ireland for six years. Another act of random kindness to add to the others we encountered.
In the middle of the village is this adorable sculpture of a small boy toddling towards, perhaps, his grandfather. We saw many such beautiful items but weren't always able to stop to get a photo of them. This one we did manage to capture.
Does your town have artworks around the place?
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@birjudanak (14316)
• India
10 Nov 15
no we have no artwork but we are living with live that kind of atmosphere because in our street almost 50 child below 10 and in year for them we organised one game show to see their ability and strength
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@birjudanak (14316)
• India
10 Nov 15
@JudyEv ya its fun but important thing is that when they met each other they will come in touch and as much as talk with each other they will learn something new
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@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Nov 15
@birjudanak Networking with new friends in this way is very important and children will learn a lot from each other.
@djgarner86 (289)
• Exeter, England
10 Nov 15
We have a marble statue of one of the first founders of a large hotel in the area.
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@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Nov 15
Some of these statues must be very expensive to put up.
@paigea (36143)
• Canada
8 Feb 16
I love that you found random acts of kindness on your travels. I like the sculpture. Not many small villages have anything like that. The small city where we do our shopping has some interesting sculptures.
The small villages tend to have "the world's biggest ______" Like this example, the world's biggest lamp. Actually I don't know if they claim it's the biggest.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
10 Nov 15
What a lovely sculpture, we have a couple in our town...but i've seen better.... I wish sometimes there would be an information plaque or marker nearby.... telling us the story of ...why it's there ?? Because there usually is a story....
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
13 Nov 15
I love to find sculpture around in a city. The bigger cities do have them. My small town has nothing and other local small towns have murals painted on the walls but no sculpture that I can think of. I love your photo! I also like the random acts of kindness.
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@PainsOnSlate (21845)
• Canada
13 Nov 15
@JudyEv That is the truth. I guess we are just too small for tourists.
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@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Nov 15
@PainsOnSlate Some of our small towns are battling to survive so they come up with all these ideas to attract visitors. Some are very innovative.
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@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Nov 15
Some of our smaller towns might have a sculpture or other artwork. Some artists like to get out of the cities and live in the smaller towns. In that case you might find some of their work round the place. And everyone is keen to pretty up the towns to attract the tourists - and their money!
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@GardenGerty (169474)
• United States
9 Nov 15
There are towns and cities around that do have art around. Not the little town where I am. It is amazing the workmanship that creates that kind of art and the workmanship that makes for the kind of service of sawing your boards.
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@winterose (39887)
• Canada
30 Dec 15
lovely photos, you know I have no money to travel and I don't even have a camera
@wetnosedogs (1533)
• United States
9 Nov 15
Not by me that I know of. That is a darling sculpture.
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@bookbar (1609)
• Sudbury, England
10 Nov 15
We are a pretty small island Judy, with not a lot of room to expand the space between inhabited areas, unlike Australia
... if we stretch too far, we would end up in the sea... did you know,that nowhere in Britain is more than 74 miles from the wet stuff..hope you are enjoying your time here, and return home with good memories
... if we stretch too far, we would end up in the sea... did you know,that nowhere in Britain is more than 74 miles from the wet stuff..hope you are enjoying your time here, and return home with good memories1 person likes this
@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Nov 15
Another thing that continually forced itself to our attention was how long it took us to get anywhere. We were prepared for narrow roads, etc but hadn't realised just how slow travelling can be sometimes. We kept off the motorways as much as possible so it was our own fault that we were slow. We just wanted to chug along and see the country. We thoroughly enjoyed our time there thanks.
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@Kazemononoke (248)
• United States
10 Nov 15
I wish I could visit the UK! I'm sure there are much more cute things that you can discover there. I did enjoy Korea a lot and hope to spend more time traveling overseas.
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@JudyEv (382067)
• Rockingham, Australia
10 Nov 15
I'm sure Korea would blow my mind too. The Asian countries are so totally different from what I'm used to.
