North East Liberties

My mother had this piece of bog oak on her patio for years but gave it to me a while back, so now it sits on our patio.  As the name suggests, it's simply a piece of an oak tree that was pulled from a peat bog some years ago.  It stands about 3 feet tall and I guess it's quite an age, having been preserved in the ground. Anyway, it's a very nice thing but I have struggled to...

My wife dabbles with dressmaking and is always on the lookout for mannequins, so when she saw a advert offering a couple of freebies it wasn't long before I was dispatched to collect them.  Turns out there were 3 in total, two in a seated position and one standing.  They're weird things, mannequins and I did have a little laugh to myself when trying to get them into the back ...