Another garden feature

@Fleura (34925)

United Kingdom

October 16, 2022 5:41am CST

Here’s another unexpected sight I came across the other day. There’s not a lot of space in front of this house because the plethora of modern wheelie bins takes up a lot of what might originally have been a small front garden, but someone has been inspired to add a bit more interest by adding a model alpaca! I don’t know where one might acquire such an ornament but it does turn heads for sure! All rights reserved. © Text and image copyright Fleur 2022.

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@xFiacre (14784)

• Ireland

16 Oct 22

@fleura I wonder did the man of the house pick it up on the way back from a heavy session at the pub. My uncle used to come home with stuff he’d been sold while inebriated - super-fast greyhounds, left-handed knitting needles and even Winston Churchill’s chamber pot. The bargains always seemed so different next morning.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

I just love the idea of someone coming home from the pub with a model alpaca! I just hope it wasn't expensive.

@DaddyEvil (174237)

• United States

16 Oct 22

How sure are you that it's not a real alpaca? Did you try to pet him?

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

It did look quite realistic from a distance, but a real one wouldn't just stand there in a concrete yard surely.

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@DaddyEvil (174237)

• United States

21 Oct 22

@Fleura I wouldn't think so, no... But why would anyone put a statue of one in a concrete yard?

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

@DaddyEvil Who knows? I guess I will never find out, unless I go and loiter in that street one morning and wait for someone to come out so I can ask them!

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@BarBaraPrz (51811)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

16 Oct 22

I thought it was a llama, but what do I know?

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@BarBaraPrz (51811)

• St. Catharines, Ontario

21 Oct 22

@Fleura Are you sure it's not a baby llama?

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

@BarBaraPrz Hmmm, OK now I'm on less firm ground

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

It's too small, alpacas are pretty much just like small llamas.

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@LadyDuck (502177)

• Italy

16 Oct 22

Not very pleasant to have those garbage bins right under their windows. The Lama is cute.

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@LadyDuck (502177)

• Italy

21 Oct 22

@Fleura We have the same here. We are obliged to recycle and we have to separate so many things. I wonder where those who live in an apartment place their bins.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

He's an alpaca I'm sure (smaller than a llama). But the multitude of bins we have these days are something of a curse, especially if you only have very little space outside.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

@LadyDuck I think they often have larger shared facilities if it's a big complex. But often houses like the one in the picture get turned into two flats and then that's double the number of ordinary household bins in the same space.

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@JudyEv (381810)

• Rockingham, Australia

17 Oct 22

It looks pretty cute there, looking over the fence.

At least it's a good likeness.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

It is quite realistic and about life size too.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

@JudyEv It's fun to see what people put outside their houses. You're making me want to out on a recce now to see what else I can spot! Except it's pouring with rain just now and I'm trying to get some work finished

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@JudyEv (381810)

• Rockingham, Australia

21 Oct 22

@Fleura There is one couple here who have a fibreglass cow. I must get a photo of it one day. It often sports a hat which changes regularly.

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@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

16 Oct 22

That is too funny. I would have had a plant there in the small space, but whatever they want.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

Plants for me too, all the way!

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

@CarolDM Funnily enough on that note, one of the higher-education establishments around here has actually bought some alpacas as therapy animals for its students!!

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@CarolDM (203396)

• Nashville, Tennessee

21 Oct 22

@Fleura They can be so therapeutic as well.

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@youless (114117)

• Guangzhou, China

17 Oct 22

This is very funny and I like this feature

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

It's certainly unusual and eye-catching!

@allknowing (153544)

• India

17 Oct 22

That place looks pretty congested.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

17 Oct 22

Those houses weren't built to accommodate all the paraphernalia of today's urban lives.

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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)

• China

16 Oct 22

The model alpaca contrasts comically with the wheelie bins ! I guess the owner of house put model alpaca there in case people would put more wheelie bins there.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

I would love to know where it came from. Perhaps someone thought it would cheer the place up a bit because a collection of bins isn't very attractive!

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@Juliaacv (56205)

• Canada

16 Oct 22

He is cute, watching out over the garbage cans for his master home owner.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

He is rather cute isn't he? I can imagine saying hello to him on the way past if I lived on that street!

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@wolfgirl569 (135582)

• Marion, Ohio

16 Oct 22

That is a cute addition

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

Quite a friendly-looking chap isn't he?

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@Ronrybs (21503)

• London, England

16 Oct 22

Not that I want one, but where do you find these things! Can there be that much of a market?

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

There used to be a place not that far from here that sold all sorts of bizarre things, everything from a £10,000 ornate marble fountain to a life-size fibreglass Elvis I remember. Sadly it closed down a few years ago.

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@Ronrybs (21503)

• London, England

22 Oct 22

@Fleura A pity, but I can't see much demand for lots of life size Elvis

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@thelme55 (79311)

• Germany

16 Oct 22

It looks like a real alpaca.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

It did look quite realistic until I was a couple of houses away!

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@Beestring (15373)

• Hong Kong

16 Oct 22

The alpaca is cute. But with the garbage bins, the place looks a bit packed.

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@Fleura (34925)

• United Kingdom

21 Oct 22

These wheelie bins are something of a curse.

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